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I moved my Joomla site from the root to a subdirectory. Example: /mainsite
So, now I want to have http://www.mysite.com point to /mainsite and not the root. Is there an easy way of doing this for someone who doesn't know php at all?

Thanks.

If your webhost has a cPanel control panel, open this and click on "Redirects"

type in  http://www.mysite.com/index.html and redirect to http://www.mysite.com/mainsite/index.php

that should do the trick

Unfortunately, I don't think I have cPanel. I'm hosting with Godaddy, which seems ok so far.
I've searched all through the server admin but don't find anything. I'm wondering if redirecting isn't an option with the "economy hosting" plan
Probably have to upgrade?

Could I use a index.php file to redirect to another directory?

Probably the easiest way is with your .htaccess file (if you have it). Add a line like this:

Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://yoursite.com/newdirectory/newfile.html

All three parts are seperated by a space, and the second part is relative to the root of your site. You can also redirect an entire directory (in case you have a lot of outside links pointing a interior pages):

/olddirectory http://yoursite.com/newdirectory/