Question Plesk Domain Preview Broken - Subdirectory Install

[first4it]

Server operating system version

AlmaLinux 9.5

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.68 Update #2

I am having an issue with Wordpress sites installed on my AlmaLinux 9 Plesk server. As a standard, we normally install WordPress sites into sub-directories as part of our overall security strategy. I know some people will consider this unnecessary or even pointless. This is something we have done now for many years, changing the WordPress settings for the site Address URL to https://www.mysite.com/myfolder and the Site Address URL set at https://www.mysite.com and then modifying the root index.php file to change the path of the WordPress install to /myfolder/.

When we do this and then login to the control panel for the users account and select the domain. The image thumbnail preview displays the site with a 404 error and clicking on the preview link results in the same. Plesk appears to try and load the site preview from the https://www.mysite.com/myfolder as opposed to https://www.mysite.com.

Is there a way around this to keep the site in a sub-directory but have plesk display the preview image and preview site correctly?

Many thanks for your help

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Hello, @first4it . WP Tookit verifies the WordPress files. If I understand correctly, you still have the WordPress files in the subdirectory and only the index.php file outside of it. I don't think there is a way to "trick" it about the current site URL. It might be worth it to open a support ticket with Plesk support and double-check if our engineers can suggest a workaround to this particular scenario.