It can be done, I did it here for example: http://krimsonkloverdev.malbert.me/ – dev site with seperate wordpress install http://www.malbert.me/ – main site on root level. I set everything up at my host, I’d recommend you just contact them first and be sure you can have separate database installs as that’s basically all you need.
Subdirectory and domain multisite installation
Create Subfolder that always displays template file
Move WordPress with changed name ‘wp-content’
With some help (also asked on SO, as this wasn’t a strict WP question), and some testing, the following ended up working for me (added a slash just before the $ sign): RewriteRule ^galleries/(.*)/$ /portfolio/$1 [R=301,NC,L] As the galleries are actual directories, not files, they have a slash at the end: http://subdomain.example.com/galleries/headshots/ Here —^
Found a solution for anyone who may stumble upon this. Basically, each part of a standard WordPress htaccess now has two RewriteConds: one for when it is in a subfolder, and another for when its not. Depending on that evaluation, the appropriate RewriteRule is applied. # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – … Read more
Well, what do you know — there’s a plugin for that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/ Under the “redirects” tab in the plugin’s settings you can set as many redirect rules as you’d like.
Are you sure the rewrite module is enabled? Type: a2enmod rewrite If you are on Linux or equivalent for your platform/setup. You can also try: ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ and look for the rewrite module in there?
Please refer to the official codex page: Moving WordPress within your site Go to Admin Panel -> Settings -> General. Change WordPress address (URI): (www.thess.com/welcome to www.thess.com) Change Site Address address (URL): (www.thess.com/welcome to www.thess.com) Move your files from subdirectory to root. That’s it.
Installing WordPress inside a sub-directory is kind of problematic. Yes, you could modify your .htaccess in order to show your WordPress site on both the root folder and the sub-directory. However, most likely you will run intro troubles later on. Best suggestion is to move your WordPress installation to the root folder.