title: Wordpress - Show my blog along with main site
body: <p>I already have my main PHP based website running in the root folder of my website. Lets call it www.example.com. I have about few pages. Some of the navigation links are: </p>
  
  <p>Home | Services | About Us | Contact Us</p>
  
  <p>I wanted to add a Wordpress blog to this.. So heres what I did.</p>
  
  <p>Home | Blog | Services | About Us | Contact Us</p>
  
  <p>Please note that I have now created a sub-folder called "blog" in the root folder of the website and I have uploaded all the Wordpress "files" into the blog folder. So if I want to access my blog, as of now, I would visit: www.example.com/blog</p>
  
  <p>So far, its ok. Now when I add new posts to the blog, I do NOT want people to see the "/blog" in the URL, when they try to read the posts. I went through the following link, but it does not help: <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory" rel="nofollow">Giving WordPress Its Own Directory</a></p>
  
  <p>The above link will help if people just want to host their Wordpress site and nothing else. Its just helpful to keep the root folder clean and still access the URL from the root folder. But thats not the case with me. I already have PHP based website running in root folder. I just want 
  the blog to be an addition, yet skip showing that its added in another folder. </p>
  
  <p>I made the following changes as well in admin panel of wordpress:</p>
  
  <p>In "Settings > General" page: </p>
  
  <p>WordPress Address (URL): www.example.com/blog</p>
  
  <p>Site Address (URL): www.example.com</p>
  
  <p>In "Permalink Settings" page, chose this option: <a href="http://www.example.com/sample-post/" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/sample-post/</a></p>
  
  <p>Now, the home page &amp; other pages load fine. </p>
  
  <p><strong>THE PROBLEM:</strong></p>
  
  <p>When I visit: <strong>www.example.com/blog</strong>, it says:</p>
  
  <p>"This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?
  It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help."</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>I do not understand why I see the above when I expect to see the post. There is a sample post of Hello Word. I expected to see a link to that, but that did not happen. Why is this happening?</p></li>
  <li><p>Further, if I click on the Home link, it gets me to the homepage of the website, which is correct. But if I click on the "Sample Page" menu link or "Hello World" link under "RECENT POSTS", the following URL appears in address bar: 
  www.example.com/hello-world/
  But, it does NOT show me the post. Instead it loads the index.php page of the root folder of my website, which should not happen. It appears as if the CSS file is not loaded as it removed all the CSS. So the index.php page's CSS stripped version appears when I visit: www.example.com/hello-world/</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I have tried to find solutions for this, but all of them lead to the "Giving WordPress Its Own Directory" post. And the solution mentioned in that page, does not apply in my case. How can this be solved? All help is appreciated. </p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>