: Wix Causing Redirect Issues for WP-Admin My company's first site was on wix.com. We're now switching to WordPress, and it's caused issues. So basically how we have it, is we bought our domain,

@Karen161

Below is a screenshot of the root directory of a WordPress install. When you type yourdomain.com/wp-admin you are really loading yourdomain.com/wp-admin/index.php which in turn loads /wp-login.php in the root folder along with a number of files in all of these folders. Some are checked, some are loaded, some are referenced when WordPress initializes.

My recommendation is to keep WordPress and Wix totally separate from each other. When you are ready to launch your WP site, let everyone know the day has come and do the unveiling. Until then, keep them separate...

Another choice would be to install WordPress in a separate folder such as in yourdomain.com/wp In that case you may have better luck with redirecting from your root folder. I still do not recommend it.

I am not an expert on .htaccess nor on WordPress. My recommendation is based on my personal experiences.

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@Pierce454

To clarify, you want to be able to develop the wordpress site while the site continues to work at Wix, right?

You need to make sure your hosting service supports temporary URLs like 123.456.789.000/~user then change the 2 URLS in your wordpress dashboard settings to that.

Then you will be able to access the dashboard via 123.456.789.000/~user/wp-admin
When you are ready to go live, you change the settings to the proper URL, change the nameservers or DNS so your site points to your wordpress install and you should be good to go.

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@Megan663

If you redirect with mod_rewrite, you can set up a rewrite condition such that it will redirect everything except wp-admin:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-
RewriteRule (.*) mywixsite.example.com/ [R]

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