How do I change my site's root directory?

jcorning

The pages of my site currently appear at http://troopwebhostcs.com/wordpress/

How do I change this to http://troopwebhostcs.com/ ?

Albert

To do this, you must do new wordpress installation and use plugin for site migration like https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/

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jcorning

You're kidding!  I have to completely reinstall WordPress just to change the root directory? 

Albert

No, we are not kidding. How you thought it's possible? If you are good with mysql then you can check whole database and look for these paths but we guess that if you ask about it, you have no idea about mysql.

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