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Author Topic: Is it possible to change the default "home" directory for my website?  (Read 830 times)
jmccay
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« on: September 09, 2011, 07:41:28 AM »
I have a website hosted at lunarpages and the default home directory for the website is /public_html. I had someone create a new site for me and they put the site in a folder within the /public_html folder. So my question is this:

When someone points their web browser to www.mydomainname.com is there a way to have the home directory be /public_html/subfolder1/subfolder2 instead of public_html.

I realize the other option is move the new site to the public_html directory but then all of the links will be broken.

Thanks in advance.
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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2011, 11:03:23 AM »
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I think you should be able to use "redirects" option from your cpanel to acomplish this.
Quoting what it says.."Redirects allow you to make a specific web page redirect to another page and display the contents of that page. This way you can make a page with a long URL accessible by a page which has a shorter and easier to remember URL."
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« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2011, 04:20:47 AM »
Hi jmccay,

You should be able to redirect the primary domain to a subfolder similar to what your are asking by following the steps here;

http://support.lunarpages.com/knowledge_bases/article/549
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« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2011, 11:45:47 AM »
Thanks for the replies. I had tried the redirects from the cPanel and it worked but the issue is it then displays the subfolder name in the URL in the web browser. I don't wan't that to be the case. I then tried the second option listed here (editing the .htaccess file) and it appears to do the same thing. I'm trying to avoid having the subfolder name show up in the URL.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
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« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2011, 05:04:39 PM »
In .htaccess:
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_URI}  !^/subfolder1
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  /subfolder1/subfolder2/$1  [L]
I think that will do it. Any URI that doesn't already start with /subfolder1 should get it silently prefixed with /subfolder1/subfolder2/.
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