royphotog: with WordPress, as with many other sophisticated web development tools, the URL does NOT tell you where you are going to find an .html file with the contents of the webpage you see on your browser. Most people use WordPress Permalinks that create a structure of subdirectories ("folders") in the URL that do not exist on the web site.
Likewise, no search engine or visitor will ever know about the WordPress redirection from root to subdirectory.