hi.. i own a domain at bluehost called thinkjayant.com i installed my personal blog recently on it and install it on my /blog directory. Thus my blog's actual address is thinkjayant.com/blog and then i permanenetly redirected all links thinkjayant.com to thinkjayant.com/blog using my control panel now since its a new blog and i have not yet publicize or used extensively in my sigs... i want to move it to my parent folder that is root folder and not to /blog folder. i am new to this and want to do this. how do i do it. i have posts, draft posts and theme and modifications done to it. i want to leave it untouched. by the way i am using wordpress 2.5.1 help would be appreciated. should i install another wordpress installation and copy all folders..???? regards thinkjayant
Just copy all the contents from /blog (do NOT remove the contents from /blog) folder and then login to your blog from thinkjayant.com/blog/wp-login.php and then go to 'settings' and change your blog URL. Hope this will help you. Kailash
done... and remove the permanent redirect.... thanks for the help. should i delete the /blog folder safely..???? i have now just changed the folder name to /blog1... any other steps i can take..???? should i create redirect from non existent http://www.thinkjayant.com/blog to http://www.thinkjayant.com ??? thanks.
If I were you I'd download a backup, just in case Set a 301 redirect to your new location using .htaccess to avoid traffic loss.