How to access the website at root dir instead of the WordPress install dir?
How to access the website at root dir instead of the WordPress install dir?
How to access the website at root dir instead of the WordPress install dir?
1. Go to Appearance → Customize. 2. Select Homepage Settings. 3. Select A static page. 4. From the drop-down menu under Homepage, choose selected page as the front page for your site. 5. Click Save Changes.
Delete all changes you have done on the .htaccess Make it clean and default to get it OK first, then do the customization. Also try deactivating all plugins and changing your theme to a new one, better get one from https://wordpress.org/themes
So. In the end it was enough to change the address in the database. In the table wp_options there are the two entries pointing to the url that were set. By modifying those it should work. Unfortunately Chrome does some mumbo jumbo with redirects etc. and it kept pointing it to the old url. Testing … Read more
You can use the trailingslashit function to make sure your URL’s always have a trailing slash. https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/trailingslashit/
If you have a cPanel and have an access of phpMyAdmin on your host, then find your DB, check the “siteurl” and “home” fields are correct in wp_options Table. Or Add these two lines to your wp-config.php, where “example.com” is the correct location of your site. define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://example.com’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://example.com’); Or If you have a cli access, … Read more
If you’re on a local install, it’s fairly trivial to fix this. Just use phpMyAdmin to reset home_url and/or site_url in the wp_options table in the database. Switching between two localhost installs is also fairly straight-forward: just don’t actually use “localhost” for anything. Instead, set up a unique domain in your system’s hosts file for … Read more
Use get_home_url() to link to the home page: echo ‘<a href=”‘ . get_home_url() . ‘”>Home</a>’;
You can put in Custom links from the wordpress menu dashboard.
In order for the site to be publicly accessible you need to host the site on a server that is publicly accessible. Your local MAMP server is almost certainly not public. There are hacks and workarounds that would let you host the site from there, but don’t. Lease a server and install your site there. … Read more