Can't access WP Admin Panel and website doesn't display properly

Please try re-reading those instructions again carefully, You appear to have missed something. I’ve carried out such a “move” many times without any problems.

Thanks Esmi. I appreciate your response. I undid the changes I’d made and got the site working properly again. I then went through the instructions again,but am still having some problems. Here is what I did:

1 – Changed the site address URL under Settings->General from https://licewrangler.com/wordpress1 to https://licewrangler.com/wordpress and saved that change. I did not change the WordPress Address URL as that is what messed up my site the first time. It is still https://licewrangler.com/wordpress1

2 – I copied the index.php and the .htaccess file from the /wordpress1 directory into my web root (/htdocs).

3 – I edited the index.php file I just placed in the web root and added /wordpress1 to the require line, so it now reads require('./wordpress1/wp-blog-header.php');
I didn’t make any changes to the index.php in the wordpress1 folder

My .htaccess file in the root directory looks like this:

# 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

and in the /wordpress1/ it looks like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress1/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress1/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

4 – I logged in to my site, but didn’t make any changes to the permalink structure – it is set at https://licewrangler.com/2012/12/12/sample-post/
I didn’t think I needed to make any changes to that.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or solutions. The site is now coming up, but there is no content, just “The page you requested could not be found” error. I appreciate your help. I have one other site that I need to do this to, but I want to make sure I get this one working properly before I “move” the other one.

Have you published any posts yet?

I added back the /wordpress1 on the Site URL, so if you look at it now, licewrangler.com, you can see what it should look like, with all the content. Only I need the URL to only show licewrangler.com not licewrangler.com/wordpress1 .

What happens if you switch the url back but use the default theme with all plugins deactivated?

It brings up the site and most of the content. The /wordpress1 is gone, except for when you return to the home page. Is there a way to keep the Chameleon theme and not have /wordpress1? This site is for a client and they’ve really liked everything about it except that.

I’m sorry but as this is a commercial theme, you need to ask the theme’s vendors.
https://www.elegantthemes.com/forum/

Thanks. I’ll look into that. I’m also wondering if it would just be easier to uninstall wordpress and then manually install it into the root directory. I would think this would fix my problem. Network Solutions does not allow quick installs into the root, which is why it created the wordpress1 folder.

What version of WordPress are you using?

I’m using 3.5.