How to make WordPress theme the main page

Actually I wish the subject of this thread was “How do I make WordPress act as my main page?”

This assumes WordPress is in a folder called wptheme and that the wptheme folder is in our web-root folder.

To make WordPress available at https://mydomain.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to https://mydomain.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the wptheme folder)

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wptheme/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

You may find it necessary to delete the index.html file in your web-root folder.

Then update your permalinks in Settings->Permalinks.

That is exactly what I was going to ask.

Follow-up: correct me if I’m wrong, but the folder structure should be mydomain/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content(etc)/themes(etc)/mytheme
and I should put the above index.php file in the root folder.

tekdiver500ft – you are correct about the placement of the theme sub-folder and its files. That’s why dismar’s question was a bit confusing…

And the above index.php I specified does go in the web-root folder, which, in your case, looks to be httpdocs.

Thanks. My question is, though, won’t that make the docs say https://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/page?

Test domain I have that same setup and the page called sitemap has URL mydomain.com/sitemap

okay, thanks.

I’m doing something wrong, here. Any way you can tell me what?

domain: https://www.blackeaglestudios.com
root folder: httpdocs
wordpress is subfolder of httpdocs
index.php says…
<?php

/* Short and sweet */

define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

require(‘./wptheme/wp-blog-header.php’);

?>

HELP!!

I’m doing something wrong, here. Any way you can tell me what?

domain: https://www.blackeaglestudios.com
root folder: httpdocs
wordpress is subfolder of httpdocs
index.php says…
<?php

/* Short and sweet */

define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

require(‘./wptheme/wp-blog-header.php’);

?>

HELP!!
If you need more/better/detailed information, email me at
fritz[at]blackeaglestudios[dot]com

oh, this is what I get when I try to log in…

Warning: main(blackeaglestudios.photocart./atahualpa/wp-blog-header.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\blackeaglestudios.ieasysite.com\httpdocs\Index.php on line 4

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘blackeaglestudios.photocart./atahualpa/wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.;./includes;./pear’) in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\blackeaglestudios.ieasysite.com\httpdocs\Index.php on line 4

If wordpress is in httpdocs/wordpress the that require entry in index.php should be

require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');

Thanks. I’ll try that.

that didn’t do it.

Let me direct you to:
Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory