Redirect and Hide Sub-Directory

[socsci]

I'm new to Joomla and have a question about redirecting and hiding the subdirectory where the actual installation lives.

Our site is running Joomla! 2.5.8 on an Apache server. I have the latest version of Akeeba Admin Tools installed and the .htaccess Maker activated. We're using the RocketThemes Graffito Theme.

The site is installed in a subdirectory:

http://www.fearlessstudio.com/joste/

Links to articles now look like this:

http://www.fearlessstudio.com/joste/ind ... ess-studio

I would like to direct http://www.fearlessstudio.com/ to show the contents of http://www.fearlessstudio.com/joste/ , but hide the subdirectory.

So, instead of this:

http://www.fearlessstudio.com/joste/ind ... ess-studio

I'd like it to be:

http://www.fearlessstudio.com/info/fearless-studio

I'm at a loss. I've spent days reading through various sites, but none of their use cases quite match our conditions. Could someone offer some helpful code suggestions for my .htaccess file?

Thanks so much!

[ranwilli]

Is there a GOOD reason you can't just move Joomla to the fearlessstudio.com root? It's a quick and fairly painless two step process.

[socsci]

Thanks for your reply, ranwilli. Yes, there is a good reason Joomla isn't installed in the root. I'm comfortable moving it, if I have to. However, as things progress, other software will be residing on the site and I don't want those applications mingled with the Joomla files.

As I understand it, I need one htaccess file in the root to redirect file paths into the sub-directory and then rewrite the base to remove the sub-directory and index.php from the displayed URLs.

I tried a work around with two htaccess files (one in the root and the other in the subdirectory, which I understand is not best practice), but that worked for about a week before breaking yesterday.

[ranwilli]

Code: Select all

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://mydomain.com/php/index.php

[socsci]

Thanks. I'll give RedirectMatch a shot.