Site move from temp URL to online

Hello,

I’m in the process of rebuilding my site at a new hosting account. Yesterday I was finally happy with the new site and decided to put it online. I’m having an issue which came up after the move was finalized.

I built my new site in a temporary URL-location. The factor that seems to be complicating the matters is that my WP is not installed in the root folder. After the move the site was not working – the front page @ my site https://akufunktio.fi just showed the default coming soon page from my host, and the wp install location (which is also the site URL home) https://akufunktio.fi/akupunktio displayed a broken site. I managed to fix this by adding

define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://akufunktio.fi/akupunktio’);
define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://akufunktio.fi/akupunktio’);

to the wp-config.php AND making a redirect from https://akufunktio.fi/ to https://akufunktio.fi/akupunktio

The latter fix is something I think is not how it really should be fixed – it’s just a band aid solution. What could be the factor in my WP-config which prevents the root level URL https://akufunktio.fi/ to be recognized correctly as the home of my site?

I hope I expressed this problem clearly enough ?? thanks for any help

Juho