I just created a blog.mysite.com domain and installed WordPress. However, when I go to blog.mysite.com it isn’t redirecting to WordPress – blog.mysite.com/wordpress. Should I move the contents of the /wordpress directory to my blog root folder or create an .htaccess redirect?
This is only going to be a wordpress blog so I assume I can move the files instead of creating a redirect, no?
Thank you! 😉
You should put the WordPress files in the root of the subdomain – that is, wherever your host’s document root for
blog.mysite.comis. In my case, that’s/public_html/blog; but I assume that could be different from host to host.I would recommend doing a fresh install, rather than just moving the files – unless you’re comfortable with potentially manually editing the DB to change WordPress URL/Site URL settings.
Refer to Giving WordPress Its Own Directory in Codex: Using a pre-existing subdirectory install.
You don’t have to move everything, just the
index.phpfile needs to be copied to root and updated to point to your subdirectory install.