Issue regarding hosting URL of wordpress website and redirection

Aaditya_Jujagar

Need help from htaccess experts and Wordpress gurus.

My problem:

My website is abc.com

Wordpress is installed in /wordpress folder

1) If anyone requests abc.com in the browser, it automatically forwards to 'abc.com/wordpress'. This is done using htaccess file and the website homepage opens normally. I would like to remove '/wordpress' from the address bar. Meaning the browser should display 'abc.com' only instead of 'abc.com/wordpress'.
How can we acheive this?

2) Also, for any internal links in the webiste, I would like to remove '/wordpress' in the browser path. So, if anyone requests 'Services' webpage which can be accessed from homepage, they should see:
'abc.com/services' instead of 'abc.com/wordpress/services' in the address bar.

At the moment, if someone requests 'Services' webpage from homepage, the browser directs to 'abc.com/wordpress/Services' but comes with an error:

This page isn’t working
abc.com redirected you too many times.
Try deleting your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

However, after navigating to the address bar and removing 'wordpress' text from this i.e. just typing 'abc.com/Services', this comes back with the normal 'Services' page displayed normally.

Could someone please help me to resolve the above?

My current htaccess file looks like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?abc.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wordpress/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?abc.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ wordpress/index.php [L]

noob404

Why not just install WordPress to abc.com instead of abc.com/WordPress. As for services, you can use a child theme and WordPress' inbuilt functionality to add a page for services.

ScreenReader

what's your base_url in the wordpress setting?

if you put your site inside /wordpress, your base url also has to be the same

raindog308

You don't need a wordpress subdirectory. Just install in the root folder. Perhaps 'public_html' if cPanel.

emgh

@raindog308 said:
You don't need a wordpress subdirectory. Just install in the root folder. Perhaps 'public_html' if cPanel.

I installed wordpress in /root but I don’t see anything on my website. Help!

niranjan

I have a similar setup, my backend is one pub.example.com and the fronted is example.com. Simply change the WordPress address to your backend URL, ie pub.example.com and Site URL to example.com.

vsys_host

Changing the WordPress URL in the settings can do the trick, but leaving this scheme in production will result in many bugs in the future.