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WordPress

Posted by Dan Arata
Dan Arata
9,253 Points

Remove /wordpress from domain

Hey folks,

I recently purchased hosting from godaddy and tried to install wordpress on a domain I own.

The problem is I want the home page to have the wordpress site. But the wordpress site shows up on

www.domain.com/wordpress

I want it to load on www.domain.com But when I go to www.domain.com there is a page saying 'website under construction'

Help? Thank you in advance! -Daniel

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Hi Daniel,

It looks like you tried to put your Wordpress installation in a separate folder inside the root folder of your domain.

Typically the root folder is the top level folder and is called "www" or "public_html" and when you download Wordpress this is where the files should go.

Try going into your server via FTP, deleting any files that are in your root folder and putting your Wordpress files in there and you should be good to go.