Giving WordPress its Own Directory While Leaving Your Blog in the Root Directory

Many people want WordPress to power their site’s root (e.g. http://example.com) but they don’t want all of the WordPress files cluttering up their root directory. WordPress allows you to install the WordPress files to a subdirectory, but have your blog exist in the site root.

Go to:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
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Or you can do it manually where users will be redirected from http://www.example.com to http://www.example.com/wordpress_folder/

You need to add the following to the .htaccess file in the root folder of your remote site. Do not delete what is already in the file. And you must use a text editor, not Word or other word processors. (See my tutorial for an explanation of text editors)

Redirect /index.html http://www.name_of_your_site.com/wordpress_folder/

Obviously, you need to replace “name_of_your_site” and “wordpress_folder” with the real name of your site and the folder where WordPress resides.

The WordPress Docs have more information about the .htaccess file here.

Thanks,
Chrissie