Permalinks Structure and 404 Question

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I don’t know enough wordpress to actually be able to find the correct wording to get any real information on my problem.

Someone asked me to set up a simple news system in a already running website, so everything is already working as pure html all around.

I didn’t really want to obstruct the root directory of the website so I installed WordPress in a /wp/ folder and I managed to setup the news fine but my URLs display that www.xxx.com/wp/news_name/ which I don’t want.

I would like some guidance as to what all this is referred as.

I went to the dashboard main options and changed the paths
WordPress Address: www.mysite.com/wp/
Site Address: www.mysite.com/ or www.mysite.com/news/

or just went to the permalink page and setup the custom path as:
www.mysite.com/news/%post_name%/

but any of this returns a 404.

My guess is that there is something to do with .htaccess files but I got no luck tempering with it the way I am used to.

Thanks for any info of the subject and sorry if it is a overly asked problem but I can’t seem to find my exact problem using the wording I know,

2 Answers
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It’s a bit of a trick to get a WordPress site working within a framework of a non-Wordpress (html only) site in a fully-integrated way (though it can be done!). To keep things simple, I’d keep them pretty separate for the moment, which it sounds like you’re happy to do. So I guess you have two main options to clean things up and get it working on your desired /news/ address:

  1. Delete that instance of WordPress and re-install it at the /news/ address. So instead of the default /wp/ address that cPanel offers you can instead change this to anything. Once it’s at /news/ then it’s probably all good!

  2. Change your current /wp/ install to /news/ properly. You’re halfway there. Once you’ve changed the address in your wordpress settings, you now need to move all your files from /wp/ to /news/ … you can do this via File Manager in cPanel or via FTP. Once you’ve done this, make sure you log to WordPress at the /new/wp-login.php address and then refresh permalinks by going to Settings / Permalinks and hitting ‘Save Changes’ which will then refresh all page addresses.

Best of luck. Let me know how you go!

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