How to move files from /blog to / without breaking links

See this tutorial Moving_WordPress – and ask back if you have more questions.

So that all your incoming links still work,I found this worked for me.

leave a .htaccess file in the now empty original blog folder with this one line.

redirect 301 /blog/ https://www.YOURSITE.com/

Yeah that would get a reader to my front page instead of a 404 error page (right?) but what I’m hoping I can do is configure htaccess to redirect each and every existing link to its relative page at my new address. For example:

mydomain.com/blog/post100 —> mydomain.com/post100
mydomain.com/blog/post101 —> mydomain.com/post101
mydomain.com/blog/post102 —> mydomain.com/post102
… and so on.

Is this possible?

I’m pretty sure thats what it does..just the one line

I didnt make that very clear,

do what I suggested and you get every page redirected to its corresponding page. Its like magic!!

Great, will try it. Thanks.

Wicked. Piece of cake. Didn’t need to leave a htaccess file in the /blog directory either. Just added the code to the main htaccess file (which I’d moved to root). Thanks.

??
it all looks good except

https://last-straw.net/blog

redone your permalinks and deleted the /wp-content/cache directory ?

Oh yeah, https://last-straw.net/blog doesn’t work but https://last-straw.net/blog/ does. What’s that about?

Yeap, redone my permalinks and deleted cache.

Added redirect 301 /blog https://last-straw.net/ and this appears to have fixed the problem. Thanks.