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i have put all joomla files and folders in a folder in my root directory called joomla.
how do i make it so when someone accesses my site (i.e. http://www.mysite.com) it goes to the joomla folder, but doesnt show it as http://www.mysite.com/joomla?
is there something i need to put in the .htaccess file?

you can use the meta refesh code..

what you need to to is to create a file called index.html or index.php in your rooot folder and use the following code in btn the head code..



or



Explanation:

Tells the browser to load http://www.mysite.com/ 10 seconds after the current document has finished loading. Not all browsers support this, so authors should provide an alternate means of moving to the new page where necessary. The Refresh header is sometimes used for "splash screens" or when a page has moved, but the technique is not very effective since users may not even be looking at the window that is to be refreshed and since it messes up the user's history on many browsers. Some search engines penalize pages that use a Refresh of a few seconds or less.

thanks for your reply, but i wasnt looking for this method.
im looking at making the joomla folder the default web folder, so when you go to http://www.mysite.com it goes staright to the joomla folder.
i remeber seeing how this was done somewhere, but i cant find it.
can one else who has done this or knows how?

The most efficient way of achieving this is just to move all of your files and folders up one level (out of the /joomla/ sub folder) and adjust the settings in configuration.php so that your joomla script is your default site.

You could use a .htaccess file to rewrite ALL urls to yoursite.com/ to yoursite.com/joomla invisibly but this is more server intensive. It would also complicate things if you wanted to use Search Engine Friendly (SEF) Urls.

Dean.

i recall seeing somewhere that you can somehow, by editing the .htaccess file, allow a directory (such as the joomla folder) to act as the main root. so when some goes to http://www.mysite.com it will actually show the url http://www.mysite.com, but would get the files from the joomla folder.

is this possible or was i just dreaming?

You can certainly do that in the httpd.conf file - the apache server configuration file, I don't think you can do the same in .htaccess (but this is not my field). Mod_Rewrite would simulate this - but I believe it is 'expensive' in terms of server CPU cycles.

Is there any reason you can't simply move the files out of the /joomla folder?

Dean.

my root folder has many folders and above 5 files in it by default (from the web hosting company).
i just wanted to make it more clear what folder/files were from Joomla.
but if its easier to upload joomla to root then i will do so.

Hello persianari

I do have the exact same problem and also hunting down the solution,
have you been able to solve this without dumping the joomla folders and files in root?
If yes, could you share the way you did it.

cheers
marcel

unfortunately no.
i have however found others in the same or similar situation:

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,22290.0.html

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,22018.0.html

if anyone could help it'll be great!

also if you have multiple domains, how do you make them all work on the same Joomla! installation so it works with each individual domain name?
i.e.
if you have domain.com, domain.net & domain.org
and if anyone goes to either of these sites they get the same website but with the domain that they typed in.
e.g.
if you use domain.com your site will be like domain.com/index.php
of if you used domain.org the site will be domain.org/index.php

and here's another one:

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,22381.0.html

On my intra-company site I placed an index.php at the root with this code:

header("Location: http://www.yoursitehere.com/joomla/");
?>

It is much faster than a meta refresh

doesn't this just redirect?
i.e. if you enter in http://www.domainname.com it will go to http://www.domainname.com/joomla/ but will it show
http://www.domainname.com
OR
http://www.domainame.com/joomla ??

Yes all it does is redirect.  But the only thing my users have to remember is the main site name and it redirects them to the Joomla folder.  And the PHP page makes it almost instant. But it does append the /joomla at the end. 

Thus my folder structure is unchanged and also I host other folders at the main site for other items like the photo gallery and some internal web apps that we have developed.

If you tried to make the Joomla folder the main web root then you would be limiting yourself because the entire structure would have to be underneath the Joomla install at that point.  I don't know of any way to achieve what you are wanting to do without careful planning from the start.  There may be a way to do it in the httpd.conf file but I try not to mess to much with it because invariably my change will break something else.

I had another thought but I don't know how to implement it. 

What if at your main site you had a page with just a frame that loads the Joomla site inside?

That way it would only show the main site name no matter where you are at in Joomla what as long as you don't leave the frame. 

Why not just move all you files up to the 'root' folder? Seems the simplest way to me.

If you change /joomla/ to /, then how is anyone supposed to access the folders you presently have at /?

if you change the / address to point to /joomla/, how would anyone access / anyway?

so i take it that there is no way to make a folder in the root directory and use it as a virtual root folder?
what if, say, you have 2 domains and you want to have two websites on the one account?
how would you do that?
would you have to create two virtual directories and configure your site so that if someone goes to
http://www.domain1.com --> it goes to http://www.domain.com/domain1, but shows http://www.domain1.com in the address bar.
http://www.domain2.com --> it goes to http://www.domain.com/domain2, but shows http://www.domain2.com in the address bar.

good question. 
would we need to have access to them?
doesn't Joomla! have every folder and file it needs to work?
if you have a joomla folder and you wanted to use it as your main folder then you could do this, but if you were looking to have the joomla folder as a part of the site and have other folders outside it, then you wouldnt be able to access them.

This all sounds like hard work? Why are you trying to do this? To host multiple domains off a single domain account?

If I have one web hosting account and want to have 2 domain names with 2 seperate sites on that account, how do I do that?
It would save having to pay for another web account!

If I have a hosting account for my domain http://www.mysite.com and I want to direct another one of my domain names (e.g. http://www.mygallery.com) to a folder "gallery" in my root directory, how would i do this?
NOTE: I dont want the url to be http://www.mysite.com/gallery, I want it to be http://www.mygallery.com, but obviously it would be really http://www.mysite.com/gallery since thats were the folder is.

I KNOW THAT I CAN DO
- 1 domain name on 1 web account
- 2 or more domain names on 1 web account (all other domain names will be accessing the same content)

BUT IS THIS ALSO POSSIBLE?
- 2 or more domain names on the 1 web account (each domain name has its own root folders in the actual root folder of the web account. i.e. they all have their own content and are seperate and independent of each other)

I recall seeing a webhosting company allowing multiple domains on the one webhosting account, were each domain name had its own virual directories.
I think it worked like subdomains, were you creat the subdomain and a folder is made in the root directory.
Then when people went to the domain (e.g. sub.domain.com) it would go to the folder sub but would show it as http://www.sub.domain.com, not http://www.domain.com/sub.

I dont mean to be a pain, I currently have my Joomla! installation in the root of my account and have only one domain name, but i was just curious to know whether what I am saying can actually be done.

is there some kind of masking that can be applied to this situation.
like if someone goes to http://www.mygallery.com it goes to http://www.domain.com/gallery but masks this url to only show http://www.mygallery.com?

Well some hosts offer multiple domain hosting.. so that would solve your problem.

However to do things the way you are after.. you will have to consult with your host first.. but I would pursue the subdomain method.

thanks brad.
so it is possible if the host allows it and has set it up to do this?
obviously my host hasnt, so I guess I have to talk to them to see if they allow this, which I doubt!

Of course it can be done It has to be setup by your host, that's all.. however I am sure your host won't offer it.. that being said, hosting is not that expensive if you pay for it..

my host offers this.
i pay $6.95 per month...1 GB storage, 10 GB transfer. PM if interested in details...

i didn't know this wasn't a common feature to all hosts...