Question

Install and configure wordpress on lemp on ubuntu 16.04 with wordpress in subdirectory

Posted on March 5, 2017
LEMP Ubuntu 16.04 WordPress
Asked by rshpeley

This question has been asked a lot and so far solutions have only been posted for LAMP. How about we get an answer for this and put it into a tutorial?

The root of the website should be static or php without wordpress installed in it. Call it mywebsite.

A subdirectory, let’s say blog, has wordpress installed in it => https://mywebsite/blog will access the blog.

This is to be done with one DO instance and managed by nginx server blocks, I presume.

The problem I’ve had is that the wordpress admin panel doesn’t respect https://mywebsite/blog (by checking the page source of the admin panel) and attempts to load external files by https://mywebsite.

Is this a wordpress problem or a configuration problem?

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Flamber Hansen • March 5, 2017

Accepted Answer

Did you install WordPress in that location originally? If not, then you need to adjust your URL in the configuration at https://mywebsite/blog/wp-admin/options-general.php so it includes the /blog/ part There might be some stuff still left in the database, but we can search/replace that once the other part is done.

rshpeley • March 5, 2017

I’ve edited the database and now I can display the blog page, but I can’t login with wp-admin. It refuses my username and password. When I attempt to recover the password it doesn’t recognise my email address.