wordpress url relocation

MikeFantana

Hi,

I have been developing a website at its located at www.mysite.ie/wp. Now i want to make it live and redirect it to www.mysite.ie.

is there an easy way to do this?

M.T.D

In the admin settings/general
Wordpress address should be the folder wordpress is in http://www.mysite.ie/wp
and the site address should be changed to http://www.mysite.ie
copy (copy not move) the index.php and .htaccess files from http://www.mysite.ie/wp to http://www.mysite.ie/
Then in http://www.mysite.ie/index.php change the line - require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' );
to
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp/wp-blog-header.php' );
assuming wp is the folder wordpress is in.

Trojan

I'd go as far as to say there is no "easy way" to do this as it can be tricky, especially for non-techies. There are a few different ways to do it - see more here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

The simplest of the options is probably this: add these lines to the functions.php file of your theme, immediately after the initial "<?php" line :

update_option('siteurl','http://www.example.com');
update_option('home','http://www.example.com');

Now load your site from its new location in a browser window. It should work ok. If it does, then delete those lines from your functions.php - the settings are already stored in your database and should not be modified each time your site is loaded.

MikeFantana

Thanks guys,

MTD That worked a treat

thanks

M.T.D

As an additional thought. If you put any direct links in the site content, to other site pages or images with the ..../wp... in the url you may need to update them.