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At TechCounter, the WordPress files are installed to a Subdirectory? So you ask the question, how can I access your blog at http://www.techcounter.com and not at techcounter <dot> com/subdirectory.

Many people like you want to WordPress to run of their site’s root directory ( e.x http://yoursite.com ) but don’t want all of the WordPress files cluttering up their root directory. In this article, I will tell you how to Install WordPress files to a subdirectory, but run your blog off your site’s root directory.

1.  Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we will use /myblog in our examples).

2. Go to the Options panel in your WordPress Dashboard. Go to General tab

3. In the box for WordPress address (URL): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files. Example: http://yoursite.com/myblog

4. In the box for Blog address (URL): change the address to the root directory’s URL. Example: http://yoursite.com

5. Click Update Options

6. Move your WordPress core files to the new location (myblog address).

7. Copy the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (yoursite address).

8. Open your root directory’s index.php file in a text editor

9. Change the following and save the file. Change the line that says:
      require(’./wp-blog-header.php’);
      to the following, using your directory name for the WordPress core files:
      require(’./myblog/wp-blog-header.php’);

10. Login to the new location. It might now be http://yoursite.com/myblog/wp-admin/

11. If you have set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure. WordPress will automatically update your .htaccess file if it has the appropriate file permissions. If WordPress can’t write to your .htaccess file, it will display the new rewrite rules to you, which you should manually copy into your .htaccess file (in the same directory as the main index.php file.)

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