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trying to set up a new WP install in a new directory fails — it continues to serve up the root main page.

My original install was in directory wordpress off of the main page. The original index.php explicitly requires wordpress/wp-blog-header.php. If I remove the index.php, I get a 403 Forbidden error. (and a 404 error).

There is also an .htaccess file with the following:

`# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
Options -Indexes`

if I remove the .htaccess, it happily serves up the directory hierarchy, which is also bad behavior.

the primary problem seems to be that WP 4.1.1 is expecting to find something in the root directory to tell it where to go, and whatever is supposed to tell it to do so is not present. Actually, the more I think about it, it seems like it’s using an absolute reference somewhere when it should be using a relative reference.

Again, this seems to be a fundamental problem with the 4.1.1 release. In my searches for a solution, I recall seeing something about this, but it was tied to a plugin.

And I quote from my original post:

This seems like a wordpress bug as it is browser independent (tested in Chrome & IE), theme independent (I have a modified twenty-eleven theme, but the problem persists when switching to the new twenty-fifteen that came with the update).