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How to display your subfolder URL as main domain in wordpress

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If you have installed WordPress in a subfolder and want your domain URL to display the main domain, you can follow the steps. In this example, our domain is testing.com.my and we have installed WordPress in testing.com.my/v2. The end result will be URL show www.testing.com.my and displaying content of v2

Note: This example was using a fresh installation of wordpress in subfolder

1. Login to your WordPress admin and go to General tab under Settings. 1

2. Change the Site URL to your main domain URL. 2.1

3. If you have a Permalink configured from before, you may want to change it as well.

4. Copy the index.php and .htaccess in subfolder v2 to main folder such as www or public_html. If you do not have Permalink, your v2 folder might not have .htaccess

5. Edit the index.php in your public_html. You may view the image for better understanding. Save it after done. 4

6. Refresh your website now, you should be to view the main URL displaying content of your subfolder

For detailed steps, please refer to WordPress Guide