Moving WordPress from a sub-folder to the site root (it went wrong!)

  • Resolved sharpfield

    (@sharpfield)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    Hey everyone,
    So I’ve been building a WordPress site within a sub-folder named ‘/new/’ on my webspace.

    I got to a point where I was pretty happy with the WordPress site and decided to move it to the site root.

    I was following these ‘Moving WordPress’ instructions and perhaps pressed ‘Save’ too early on the General Settings page of the WordPress admin section — my site root came up with a bunch of PHP errors.

    Because all the WordPress files were still in the ‘/new/’ folder I decided to move them to the site root, thinking that’d solve things. The first thing to move was the .htaccess file which I’d forgotten about — I remember looking at it a couple of days back and it having some info about the ‘/new/’ folder. As soon as that went to the site root, I couldn’t move, edit, upload or delete anything else in the site root! I’ve never had this before… What can I do?

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