Symlinking the WP directory

hi guys,

I’m a new WordPress user, experimenting with switching my existing blog over to WP permanently.

Here’s the deal: I have a number of different blogs that I’m testing out right now, each installed under mysiteroot.com:

mysiteroot.com/wp
mysiteroot.com/otherblogware
mysiteroot.com/thingymajig

To test out each one, I’ve made a symlink called blog at the site root, which presently points to /wp. If I navigate to /wp directly, everything is fine, but if I try to use the symlink address to log in (e.g. /blog/wp-admin), WP never completes the redirect.

I can navigate to my homepage fine; /blog will show me /wp without any URI rewriting. However, WP appears to be internally rewriting things, because if I click on the sample entry from the default install, my address bar reads /wp/?p=1, not /blog/?p=1 as I’d expect.

The other pieces of blog software I’m trying out don’t seem to have any problem with this. Is there something special in WordPress I need to do?

It’s very important to me that my installation stay as clean as possible; that is, I don’t want to edit any files that are part of a default WP install, so that this change is completely transparent.

Are there any suggestions?

thanks!