lost my /folders after wordpress install

Paul11 · 2 Feb 2013 at 16:12

i know i missing something simple

i have www.mydomain.co.uk which has quite a few folders

ie www.mydomain.co.uk/pictures
www.mydomain.co.uk/music etc

after installing wordpress i get a 404 page not found when trying to access them..

what am i missing ?

thank you

dfarrall · 2 Feb 2013 at 16:40

Depending on how you installed WP may have removed them.

Can you actually check the directory structure of the site?

Paul11 · 2 Feb 2013 at 16:42

They are still in my FTP, the folders

just cant access them via a webpage like i used to be able too

i want to be able to create a folder in FTP and put some files in it that i can get to via the web , outside of the wordpress structure

Paul11 · 2 Feb 2013 at 18:00

anyone have any ideas?

KIA · 2 Feb 2013 at 18:28

Did you install wordpress to the root / of the webspace?

It probably introduced some htaccess rules.

Paul11 · 2 Feb 2013 at 18:34

yes, its in the root

is there a way to edit the htaccess rules?

dfarrall · 2 Feb 2013 at 19:02

It should be in in your public html folder, first directory.

Paul11 · 2 Feb 2013 at 20:26

thank you. I'll have a look

what am I meant to do to it when I find it ?

Paul11 · 3 Feb 2013 at 11:51

this is my htaccess file, not got a clue what to change ?

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress