Changing the default path

nah – shouldn’t be a problem

Just rename the folder and update the wordpress options page.

What will happen though is you’ll be penalized by the search engines who will keep on searching for your stuff in the old directories. You’ll have 404 errors out the whazoo unless you tell the search engines how to handle the change.

You do that by adding something like this to the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^olddir/(.*)$ https://new.com/newdir/$1 [R=301,L]

That will send a 301 error to the search engines telling them that the file has been moved. That will make your transition go a lot more smoothly.

Hope that helps!
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Brian Layman
https://www.TheCodeCave.com

Just rename the folder and update the wordpress options page.

Yeah, but..if me remembers right..it’s the other way around though.. hehe. =) Cause if ya re-named the folder first, and then went to update the page, it won’t work..right?

I usually change my URL paths in the options page first.. then go up into the FTP directory.. and rename folder.. Isn’t this right? (If I’m wrong, I’ll paddle myself.. =P )

spencerp

thanks guys for your help im going to give it a try *fingers crossed for me*

i just want to make sure tho Brian if my site is aimzter.net/wordpress currently and i change it to aimzter.net/blog what exactly do i hav eto put in the htaccess. can you put it so i can copy paste? thank you so much

lol – well I suppose if you want to be all profound and logical about it, you should access the blog while it still exists and is like functional and all that… Yeah.

Good catch!

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Brian Layman
https://www.TheCodeCave.com

Lmao..You’re still *awesome* though Brian. ?? =)

spencerp

Aimzter, no problem.

If you have a typical WordPress .htacess file, it will end up with a section looking like this:
# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^wordpress/(.*)$ blog/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Easy Peasy!
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Brian Layman
https://www.TheCodeCave.com

Thanks Spence! You do a pretty bangup job around here yourself! (Though I can only picture you looking like the Spencer in “Ed vs. Spencer”)
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Brian Layman
https://www.TheCodeCave.com

(Though I can only picture you looking like the Spencer in “Ed vs. Spencer”)

Hahaha..lmao! Nah..I don’t think so haha. ?? =P =) Well, I have a picture of myself on my About page..so..I don’t personally think so anyway.. but, it’s hard to tell. =P

spencerp

i feel really stupid.

does it go in my main htaccess file at the root of my domain or should i have a wordpress one also? if so where do i locate it lol

thanks for your help today

It’s the .htaccess file, for the WordPress directory.. where ever your WordPress files are at, whatever folder.. it goes there..

Example
domain.com/wordpress/
.htaccess
index.php
wp-config.php
all other WP files for that directory..

spencerp