Question

I installed a Bitnami Ubuntu WordPress instance on Amazon EC2.

The wordpress.conf file on a Bitnami instance acts like an htaccess file.

The directory structure is as follows:

/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/index.php

The wordpress.conf file contains

Alias /wordpress/ "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/"
Alias /wordpress "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs"

<Directory "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs">
    Options Indexes MultiViews +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wordpress/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</Directory>

# Uncomment the following lines to see your application in the root
# of your URL. This is not compatible with more than one application.
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteRule ^/$ /wordpress/ [PT]

This makes the blog appear with this URL

http://ec2instance.com/wordpress/

I would like it to be (including when viewing individual posts):

http://ec2instance.com/blog/

http://ec2instance.com/blog/post-number-1

http://ec2instance.com/blog/post-number-2

etc

Anyone know how to make this change?

Answer 1

In that file you will need to change:

Alias /wordpress/ "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/"
Alias /wordpress "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs"

to

Alias /blog/ "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/"
Alias /blog "/opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs"

With that change apache will serve wordpress in /blog.

Then you need to change the rewrite rules also in that file (because the new urls will use /blog instead of /wordpress).

RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]

to

RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]

Finally you will need to modify also the wp-config.php file (in apps/wordpress/htdocs) making sure that the WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME urls points to /blog.

define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/blog');
define('WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/blog');