[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 6 months ago]

chrishajer – Not exactly.

I NEVER put WP in the root, after (in the 1.* days) it pitched a hissy fit with another web app over permalinks and htaccess. And since you can run WP out of root while having it in a subfolder, and no one can tell the difference, it works rather well.

I have this:

/var/www/example/index.php <which points to the wordpress folder>

/var/www/example/wordpress/<wordpress files>

accessible here http://www.example.com/ and here http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-admin

/var/www/example/bbpress/

accessible here http://www.example.com/bbpress/

With this, once I got my auth keys in order, it worked fine. I’m not saying it can’t be done your way (and hey, if it works, leave it alone! ), I’m just saying that I’ve seen it cause more headaches.