Moving Joomla website from subdirectory to homepage

[procket]

I currently have my joomla website in a subdirectory of my website. I would like to finally move it to the homepage directory so it will be my homepage. How would I go about the process?

For example:

I currently have my jooomla website in example: website.com/joomla

But I want to move the joomla website so it will be in: website.com

Can I just move all the folders/files from the subdirectory into the root? And the database and everything will be ok?

Or should I use akeeba backup to restore the website in the root?

Would they both work? Or is the safer way using akeeba backup?

Thank you

[dpacadmin]

Can I just move all the folders/files from the subdirectory into the root?

Yes, you should first empty the root folder. You will need to update the config file after. You should use Akeeba to create a backup of your site any time you are making changes.
http://docs.joomla.org/Moving_the_site_ ... irectories

[procket]

Yes I just transferred the folders and files over and it worked. Do i just need to change some folder paths in the Joomla administration global configuration place?

Like the path to log folder, path to temp folder, ftp settings?

Thanks.

[leolam]

remove the 'subdirectory' from "path to log folder, path to temp folder, " Leave ftp alone....not even enable it

Leo

[vamshij9]

Is there any other way to do this? If yes can you please let me know