jwinter66

look at a plugin called wordpress move. it will make this easy to do.

you can us it to move to a new domain (different name) or works well when moving a domain to a new server.

when installing new plugins if you type wp move in the search box it will come up.

I’ve moved lots of sites with the plug-in wordpress move.

first you set the ftp config setting to those of your new site. I usually ftp wp-move to the new site as well. and set wp-move in the old site to use the backup folder of the plug-in on the new site.

use the advance option in migration assistant and select only the wp-content folder and/or if you have any other custom folders for content.

on the new site just run the complete migration. Works great.

put a copy of the index.php file in the root and edit this line. (add /wordpress/) as shown.

require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

If you can access the mysql database you can edit the settings location.

did you edit both the wordpress url and site url? to get the site to resolve from the root you only need to edit the site url and copy the index.php and modify as above.

you can edit the paths in the wp_options table of the database. site url is the first item and the home url (wordpress url) is on the second page of this table.

change the home option_name in the table back to the https://yoursite/wordpress. copy and modify the index.php as above and you the site should be back up

To get back to your original question.

copy the index.php file from wordpress dir and put it in the main dir and rename or delete the index.html.

edit the index.php file int the main dir as follows. (add the /wordpress)
require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

in the setting of your site.
change the site url to
https://YOURDOMAIN.com