I have a Wordpress installation on my website on the folder blog-ita/
. Now, I'd like to add a rewrite rule to allow accessing it from website-name/blog/
.
I used this rewrite rule:
RewriteRule ^website-name/blog/(.*)$ blog-ita/$1
Now, this works if I add the [R] tag, but otherwise I get the 404 not found page from wordpress instead of the page I wanted to see.
How can that be? How can I make this work without the [R]
flag?
You can follow this guide from Wordpress to get Wordpress to work in a different directory than wordpress is actually located.
You want to install wordpress in the blog-ita
directory. You want the url to show website-name/blog
instead. Follow the following steps:
- Go to the "General" panel in your admin section and change/check the following boxes, then save the changes:
- Site address (URL): Change this to
http://example.com/website-name/blog
- Make sure that WordPress address is correctly configured as
htttp://example.com/blog-ita
.
- Copy the index.php and .htaccess files in
/blog-ita
and paste them in /website-name/blog
. You need to copy, not move.
- Open the index.php file in
/website-name/blog
in your favourite text editor and change the line that says require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' );
to point at the same file in the directory where wordpress is installed. In this case it should be changed to require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '../blog-ita/wp-blog-header.php' );
. Save the changes.
From this point on, wordpress should be available at http://example.com/website-name/blog/
. The admin section is only available at the actual installation directory (/blog-ita/admin
).