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Kindly follow the below steps to move the wordpress installed directory to another directory:

For example if we need to move the wordpress installed directory to public_html i.e., http://domainname.com/wp to http://domainname.com/

• Login to the cPanel of the user
• Take a backup of the domain
• Move the entire files in public_html to a new folder, say “Main Site”
• Now copy the entire files inside wordpress directory to public_html
• Take the phpMyAdmin
• Select the user’s wordpress database->wp-options -> Change the site url and home url to http://domainname.com/ from http://domainname.com/wp
• Now edit the .htaccess as follows in public_html:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / (/ represents public_html directory)
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L] (Since index.php is located in public_html)
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

• If the images are not loading correctly in site, do the below steps:

 Take the phpMyAdmin -> Export the user’s database
 Create a copy of the downloaded SQL file and open in word, then find and replace the content “domainname/wp” to “domainname/”
 Take the phpMyAdmin and drop all the tables in user’s database and upload the edited SQL file

Now check the site.