WordPress installation site folder move to the final site destination

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1. Your easiest solution here is to keep everything in your cms folder.

   and follow this step found at
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

   This will keep all wordpress related files in the cms folder, but it will look like its running from the root, copy of index and some .htaccess wizardly as you call it :).
   enjoy

   Using a pre-existing subdirectory install

   If you
   already have WordPress installed in its own folder (i.e.
   http://example.com/wordpress) then the steps are as follows:

   Go to the Generalpanel.

   In the box for Site
   address (URL): change the address to the root directory’s URL.
   Example: http://example.com

   Click Save
   Changes. (Do not worry about the error message and do not try to
   see your blog at this point! You will probably get a message about
   file not found.)

   Copy (NOT MOVE!) the index.php and
   .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root
   directory of your site (Blog address). The .htaccess file is
   invisible, so you may have to set your FTP client to show hidden
   files. If you are not using pretty permalinks, then you may not
   have a .htaccess file. If you are running WordPress on
   a Windows (IIS) server and are using pretty permalinks, you’ll
   have a web.config rather than a .htaccess file in
   your WordPress directory. As stated above, copy (don’t move) the
   index.php file to your root directory, but MOVE (DON’T COPY)
   the web.config file to your root directory.

   Open your root directory’s index.php file in a text editor

   Change the following and save the file. Change the line that
   says:
   require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
   to the
   following, using your directory name for the WordPress core
   files:
   require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

   Login to your site. It should still be
   http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/

   If you have
   set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your
   Permalink structure. WordPress will automatically update your
   .htaccess file if it has the appropriate file permissions. If
   WordPress can’t write to your .htaccess file, it will display
   the new rewrite rules to you, which you should manually copy into your
   .htaccess file (in the same directory as the main
   index.php file.)

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2. In Settings > General change WordPress Address (URL) to http://business.com/cms and Site Address (URL) to http://business.com.

   The index.php file in root (not in cms/ directory)

   <?php
   /**
    * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
    * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
    *
    * @package WordPress
    */
   
   /**
    * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
    *
    * @var bool
    */
   define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
   
   /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
   require('./cms/wp-blog-header.php');
   

   Then move cms/config.php in the root to config.php.
   And also move .htaccess from cms/ directory to root.

   Find the following lines if exist

   RewriteBase /cms/
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /cms/index.php [L]
   

   and remove cms/ string so you end up with the following

   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   

   Let me know if something went wrong.

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3. Wait…is it just me or no one thought suggesting a find & replace in the database might have fixed his problem..??

   Find business.com/cms/ & replace it with “/” or “business.com”

   And obviously moving the files from subfolder cms to the public_html…

   All could have been done via ssh in seconds…

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