Attempting to set up Wordpress, destroyed wordpress! Please help.

[jamesmfahy45]

Hello help desk!

James Fahy here, I've recently registered jamesfahy.x10.mx and used wordpress to set up a pretty spiffing site; until this morning. I want to use my domain (james-fahy.com) as the base of my Wordpress... and when I used the instructions in this article:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

I kept everything the way it was (only copied files, never deleted etc). Sadly, when I finished the process, I was getting this:


404 Not Found
The server can not find the requested page:

jamesfahy.x10.mx/jameswp/wp-admin/index.php (port 80)
Please forward this error screen to jamesfahy.x10.mx's WebMaster.





What have I done?! Messing with forces beyond my control. If you could please help me fix this, I'd really appreciate it.

Thank you!

James Fahy

 

[descalzo]

What directory did you originally install WP in?

What directory did you want WP to be in now?

Please post the contents of the .htaccess of that directory, of public_html, and the directory you want it to end up.

 

[jamesmfahy45]

Hi, thanks for your quick reply!

I originally installed it to jameswp. I copied everything in that folder to a new folder called 'wordpress'. I would like retain the site in it's original folder (as if nothing had changed) ie.

I originally installed it to jameswp and I'd like to to be in jameswp.

as far as I can tell, there is no .htaccess in that folder, and in the public_html folder the .htaccess contains no information.

Thanks again,

James

 

[descalzo]

What else did you change?

 

[jamesmfahy45]

I copied the contents of the jameswp folder in the new wordpress folder, and then copied all of that into the /home/jmfahy directory.

I made copies of index.php and .htaccess and moved them to the /home/jmfahy directory.

And I changed the new /home/jmfahy/index.php file by changing require('./wp-blog-header.php') to require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php')

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I also changed something in wordpress, setting my home page as james-fahy.com instead of jamesfahy.x10.mx

Only just thought of this!

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Hello again,

I'm just going to uninstall WP and try again, no worries!

Catchya,


J