After WP moved from subdirectory to root, some links broken

  • Resolved gburgan

    (@gburgan)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    After creating my WP site in a subdirectory, I moved it to the root directory by doing the following:

    1. WPAdmin: Settings> General> change wordpress url and site url to https://www.andpi.org, saved changes.

    2. Using FTP access with Filezilla: Moved existing site files to “archive” folder in root directory.

    3. Moved all wp2016 subdirectory contents to root directory.

    4. Site front page loaded properly after the changes above.

    But I noticed that the links on the front page were no longer working. They were pointing to the old location https://www.andpi.org/wp2016/… instead of https://www.andpi.org/…

    5. I went to WP Admin Settings> Permalinks and observed they were set to “Custom” with https://www.andpi.org//%postname%/.

    6. I changed Permalinks to “Plain” – and the “menu” links work! – but the articles and slider images linked do not work. I get a 404 error.

    I noticed that my root directory did not have the .htaccess file – I had a copy of this file on my desktop, have tried to upload it, with no success.

    I would like to use post name as my link settings, but not sure how to make this work. Or to get the .htaccess in the root directory. Oddly, I can’t delete the (seemingly) empty subdirectory “wp2016”.

    Thoughts?

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  • Thread Starter gburgan

    (@gburgan)

    Well… Yahoo/Aabaco confirms they do not support .htaccess in the root folder. I found a YouTube video that recommended using the “Custom Structure” option in permalinks with /index/php/%postname%/ in the field. It’s not a clean use of Post Name – but it will have to do now until I can move my site from Yahoo.

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