Accessing WordPress installation in its own directory at domain root

Question

I am using this tutorial Giving WordPress Its Own Directory to launch a WordPress (installed in a sub folder called wordpress) by using example.com instead of example.com/wordpress.

It says to copy index.php to your root folder and change the relative path to wp-blog-header.php accordingly. However, my folder structure is a little complex:

To access site root I go to example.com. But to access WordPress I have to go to example.com/wordpress (if anyone wondering why I am using Bitnami WordPress stack AMI and thus everything came pre-configured)

According to tutorial I should copy index.php to site root from WordPress root and change relative location of wp-blog-header.php accordingly. When index.php was in same directory the function was require('./wp-blog-header.php') . Now this location is to be changed

I have tried all three options I could think of:

1. ../apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-blog-header.php

2. ./wordpress/htdocs/wp-blog-header.php

3. wordpress/htdocs/wp-blog-header.php

But visiting the domain root gives a server error. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I think you need to use:

define("ROOT", realpath(dir(__file__)) . "/");
require(ROOT . "apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-blog-header.php");

Got this from the PHP.Net site however haven't used the code (Or use this type of code often) so can't guarantee it will work.

Cheers,
Joe

Answer 2

Here is the answer http://wiki.bitnami.org/Components/Apache#How_to_change_the_URL.3f it was because of bitnami and not a fault of wordpress

Answer 3

I have used a setup similar to this on a different server. You need to code the full path to the WordPress installation into the require function. On a regular server this would start with /home/username/.

If you don't know the full path, you can use the dirname() function:

require( dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . '/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-blog-header.php');

The first call to dirname( __FILE__ ) returns the path to the htdocs (site root) folder. The second exits that folder to the Bitnami root.