URL changed, homepage not working

  • Hello,

    My website, bastilledaynola.com was set up with Networks solutions. It was created in a subfolder called bastilledaynola, therefore all the URLs were showing up as bastilledaynola.com/bastilledaynola. Of course, I wanted the site to appear as simply bastilledaynola.com, so I followed all wordpress instructions on changing the address using the “using a pre-existing subdirectory install” support document.

    First I changed the site address in wp general settings to bastilledaynola.com. I kept the WP URL as it was set up (showing the subfolder). I then copied the index.php, put it in the root directory of the site. There was no .htaccess file created, so I did nothing with that.

    Now, all of the sub-pages are working but the homepage is not working. When I type in bastilledaynola.com it automatically sends me to bastilledaynola.com/bastilledaynola and I get a “page not found” message.

    Oddly, when I changed the permalinks settings to default, the homepage worked but no other pages worked. Then when I reset to the show page name permalink setting, I have the opposite problem. I have called Network Solutions about a dozen times and they are of NO help whatsoever. They say it is a wordpress settings issue. Please help!

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  • Change the urls back. See Changing_The_Site_URL for details of how to do this correctly without logging in. Once the site is working again, come back and we can help with how to make the change you want correctly.

    Thread Starter afneworleans

    (@afneworleans)

    Thanks, I have changed everything back to the original settings. The site is working properly now as bastilledaynola.com/bastilledaynola. Can you help me figure out why when I followed these instructions, I was not able to get it to work?

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