homepage 404 with subdirectory

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Hi – big problem here and I’ve made it work with other sites. Help! please!

I have WP in a subdirectory /staging2018/
All pages are displaying properly EXCEPT the home page. Links to home say http://paultaub.com but are resolving to paultaub.com/staging2018 and giving a 404 error

.htaccess at root:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?paultaub.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/staging2018/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /staging2018/$1
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?paultaub.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ staging2018/index.php [L] 
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

index.php at root:

<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/staging2018/wp-blog-header.php' );

.htaccess in subdirectory:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /staging2018/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /staging2018/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

index.php in subdirectory:

<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

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

Wordpress address:
https://www.paultaub.com/staging2018

Site address:
https://www.paultaub.com

Reading home page set to “Home”

permalinks set to post name

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!