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There are many reasons to install wordpress in a subdirectory and not in the root directory (for instance because it is easier to update wordpress, the files are better organized …). However, for SEO purposes, it is recommended to mask that subdirectory name in url and make wordpress look like it is installed in the root directory

So, lets suppose you install wordpress in a subdir called wordpress. Then all of your urls will look like:
http://www.yoursitename.com/wordpress/...

And we want to remove that trailing /wordpress so our urls look like:
http://www.yoursitename.com/...

Note: If you want to have permalinks active and still don’t have done this, please activate your permalinks first!!. I have set a Custom Structure (/%category%/%postname%/).

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// ** Hostname settings ** //
define('WP_SITEURL', "http://${_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}/wordpress");
define('WP_HOME',    "http://${_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']}");

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/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');

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/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');