How to organize the htdocs folder when a wordpress installation is present?

I've been told by many tutorials (including the official wordpress tutorials) that I need to place all the files (in the wordpress folder) into the htdocs folder (without a sub-directory).

I'm using MAMP for my PHP environment and Dreamweaver CS5 to build the websites. The problem that I am having is that I want to create a new project in Dreamweaver that is not using wordpress, but because all those wordpress files are in the htdocs without a sub-directory, it is giving me all sorts of warnings that issues could occur if I place a directory for my new project in the htdocs folder along side all those other files.

I've tried putting all the wordpress files into a folder called "wordpress" under htdocs, but that breaks it and I've been told not to do that but not why I shouldn开发者_JS百科't do that.

How can I organize my htdocs folder so I can have more than one project present in that directory?

I would appreciate any help on this.

Thanks!

In local machine, you can be well sure of yourself that you need to organize each project of yours in a folder in the "htdocs" directory. This is of utmost importance to keep all the projects nicely so that you can later on reference all your projects easily.

When "tutorials are saying that you need to place all the files (in the WordPress folder) into the htdocs folder (without a sub-directory)", they mostly mean about the live server & not about the development server.

Also please check the ".htaccess" file of the root directory of each project, for the "Site URL" or the "Rewrite Base", when you are configuring multiple projects in the "htdocs" folder, so that each of the projects run smoothly. And you should also check that each project is running smoothly, which have been kept in the "htdocs" folder.

Hope it helps.