How do I set up Wordpress in Plesk ?

[RichMawer]

Morning all,

I am a beginner with Plesk and using it as the Cpanel for my VPS. I have so far managed to set up a domain name for one of my sites www.jigsaw-property.co.uk and downloaded wordpress in the web applications for this domain.

However when I type in the domain www.jigsaw-property.co.uk - it comes up with a Plesk landing page. The only way I can get the wordpress page up is by typing www.jigsaw-property.co.uk/wordpress .

I know it is probably a very simple thing I am doing wrong - but can someone explain what I do to remedy this ?

Thank you,

Rich

 

[rogerprice]

Hi, did you get an answer to your question? I have the same difficulty and checking your site I see you must have worked out how to do it!

Regards

Roger Price

 

[eilko]

Wordpress is installed in the subdir /wordpress . When you move all the files from /httpdocs/wordpress to /httpddocs and remove the empty /httpddocs/wordpress you will see that you can access your site via the main url.

 

[rogerprice]

root folders

Thanks for the reply. I spent more time working on this last night and found that WP recommends to copy index.php to httpdocs/ and amend code in line 17 to read to read /wordpress/wp-blog-header.php, then and move wp-config.php to httpdocs/ so that all wordpress files stay in the /wordpress folder. This keeps things separate so I have tired this for a start. Seems to work so far, any view on which is the better method?.

Regards

Roger

 

[Jay Versluis]

Hi Roger,

when you install WordPress from the Applications list then the default location would be /wordpress. However, if that's the only thing you're running you can delete that field so WordPress (or any other application you choose) gets installed into the root directory of your domain. I do this when the application is "the main thing" on said domain.

If you want to leave it in /wordpress (or any other subdirectory of your choice) then you can also tell WordPress where the Home URL should be (under Settings - General - Site Address). If you change this though you'll also have to follow these instructions: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Hope this helps ;-)

 

[rogerprice]

Thanks

Hello Jay, many thanks for your guidance, it all makes sense now and I shall move everything into the root directory to keep things simple. Regards Roger