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OK, I have Joomla installed in a subdirectory on our server.  Don't really want to move it to the root directory, as there are some other bits of software installed on it.  Currently we have a redirect set up within the index.html file, but are now looking for a more elegant solution

I know that within the .htaccess you can add the following to get everything redirected to the correction location.



However, the problem with that is the fact that you then get http://www.mysite.com/joomla in the URL for the browser.  Which really isn't very nice.

So, with .htaccess, you can also do the following (taken from here - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html):



Now, what I am wondering, has anyone tried anything like this? And if you have, has it worked?  What happens with subdirectories under the root directory that you still want to use?  Is there still access to those?  Or does more code have to be added to be able to handle that?

Any suggestions or comments appreciated

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I've never used this myself, mostly because I use another approach to redirect visitors to different subdirectories, depending on what domainname they enter into their browser. I just think it very likely that with the second solution you may face some serious problems should you ever consider to use SEF URLs.

Migth be interesting to check how Apache handles two different rewrite rulesets for the same request, though.

Kurt

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I actually use SEF already.

So no one has set up a redirect like this then?

I am going to continue searching around the rest of the online communittee, i.e. non Joomla, and see if something similar has been done elsewhere......

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Any joy?

I am trying to do the same thing and so far getting server errors.

There is code in the sample htaccess.txt that looks like it might do the trick but doesn't quite work.

I'm also trying to do this, am really confused and do not appear to find an answer elsewhere in the forum.

I understand that if joomla is installed in a subdirectory called joomla off the web root folder the the following line in .htaccess applies:


My first problem was that I didn't know where to put the .htaccess: in the web root folder or in the joomla folder? Or both? (can it hurt to have it in both?)

I did manage to get the SEF URLS working except that they all had /joomla/ in the url... so in the configuration file I removed "/joomla" from $mosConfig_live_site.

My second problem then is that some of my images stopped working (actually it was the banners from the banner component) because of the base URL in the web page HTML... I would have assumed that the RewriteBase command in the .htaccess would have sorted this out.

My third problem is that I get an error accessing the website using only the base URL (because there's no index.php in the web root folder) so in order to see the site I have to redirect to http://mydomain/joomla/... again, I would have thought that the RewriteBase command would have taken care of this.

There are two possibilities: 1) I have no clue what I'm doing (true) and have understood incorrectly how these things work, or 2) my .htaccess is behaving badly (too much champaign over the festive season).

Any suggestions?

this is from the apache url rewrite guide - looks like this is exactly what you're trying to do, or am i mistaken?

check http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,27413.0.html

You'll find some help there.  Also a google search for .htaccess tuturial should get some useful results.

Regards.
Bevan/

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