Issues while configuring the site URL and its redirection problems

Need help from htaccess experts and Wordpress gurus.

My problem:

My website is abc.com

Wordpress is installed in /wordpress folder

1) If anyone requests abc.com in the browser, it automatically forwards to 'abc.com/wordpress'. This is done using htaccess file and the website homepage opens normally. I would like to remove '/wordpress' from the address bar. Meaning the browser should display 'abc.com' only instead of 'abc.com/wordpress'.
How can we acheive this?

2) Also, for any internal links in the webiste, I would like to remove '/wordpress' in the browser path. So, if anyone requests 'Services' webpage which can be accessed from homepage, they should see:
'abc.com/services' instead of 'abc.com/wordpress/services' in the address bar.

At the moment, if someone requests 'Services' webpage from homepage, the browser directs to 'abc.com/wordpress/Services' but comes with an error:

This page isn’t working
abc.com redirected you too many times.
Try deleting your cookies.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

However, after navigating to the address bar and removing 'wordpress' text from this i.e. just typing 'abc.com/Services', this comes back with the normal 'Services' page displayed normally.

Could someone please help me to resolve the above?


My current htaccess file looks like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?abc.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wordpress/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?abc.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Just curious, what webserver are you using, apache, litespeed, nginx?

Let's get straight to the point with some code magic to fix your issue:

Hide the /wordpress in the URL: Update your .htaccess file with this snippet:

This tweak tells your server to serve the content from the /wordpress folder without showing /wordpress in the browser's address bar.

Fix the internal links issue: Head over to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Settings > General, and ensure your WordPress Address (URL) is http://abc.com/wordpress and your Site Address (URL) is http://abc.com. This setup instructs WordPress to keep its files in the /wordpress directory but makes the site appear to be hosted directly on abc.com.

Give these changes a whirl, and your site should behave just as you want, showing clean URLs without the /wordpress part. Don't forget to clear your cache before testing to see the changes in action!

To remove "/wordpress" from your website URL and avoid redirect loops:

1. Update your .htaccess file with the provided code.
2. In WordPress settings, change both "WordPress Address (URL)" and "Site Address (URL)" to https://abc.com.
3. Update permalink structure under Settings > Permalinks.
4. Clear browser cache and cookies to see the changes take effect.

Use this code for .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# Exclude "wordpress" folder from rewriting
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wordpress/

# Redirect requests to "/wordpress" folder
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wordpress/$1 [L]

# Redirect requests for the root to WordPress
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wordpress/ [L]

# WordPress rules
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>