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mcmarcel
 Post subject: Help with relative path
PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:14 pm 
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Hello there,

I been looking for this everywhere but cannot find simple answer.
What I'm after is havimg my joomla powered site look like this...

http://www.mysite.com

not like this http://www.mysite.com/Joomla

I installed the Joomla stuff into the folder called Joomla, I need this because there are other folders in the root of my site
How can I archive to have only the showing the domain name of the site but not actually the folder where is joomla files?

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:43 pm 
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can i ask what the other folders at the root are? i cannot think of why you would need Joomla! to be in a separate directory if you don't want to acess the root anyway... please clarify?

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 2:05 am 
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Well, what I want to do is to have folders for main componets of the site organized in folders.
But when you launch the site I don't want visitors to see the logical structure of the site organized in folders, rather then saying something like
http://www.mysite.com/news
http://www.mysite.com/blog
etc...

For example the root should contain this...
joomla (for joomla files)
gallery (for gallery plug-in)
images (all images used in site)
watermarks
etc...

What I want to avoid is to have joomla directories  on the root and have some other plug-ins dumped in there as well, soone it will became mess I have no way of telling which dir belong to who.

Maybe it sound strange, but sooner later if I don't organize the folders/files in right order on site from scratch it will became mess just like my local hdd  :D
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:08 pm 
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so you want Joomla to be a sub-directory, but have access to directories above itself--not a wise structural move.

but this can do done on the direct of your domain name, if you insist on this programming habit. it should be able to do be done via your domain's control panel. (this is not a Joomla! issue, as you're trying to do something that is not a proper practice)

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:19 pm 
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well, what I want to archieve is this...

Have Joomla in the subfolder called joomle under the root.
But when someone visit the site it will not show that subfolder called joomla. Instead it should look like this url.
http://www.mysite.com

obviously since I place all Joomla related stuff in directory called joomla the site will look like this...
http://www.mysite.com/joomla
and that I want to avoid.

Is there some way how to archieve this? maybe edit the htaccess file? I'm not sure on this.
Thanks a lot for all your help.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:26 pm 
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im looking for the same answer here:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,12456.0.html

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If you do what nathandiehl says and goto your cpanel or whatever your server uses and open the redirect function and just point http://mydomain.com/index.html&nbsp; to  http://mydomain.com/joomla this should do what you ask. However I believe you can have your joomla in root and use one of the sef modules configured so the url is always what you want, but best to ask a sef expert about that.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:52 pm 
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nathandiehl wrote:
so you want Joomla to be a sub-directory, but have access to directories above itself--not a wise structural move.

can i ask why?
isn't it just like setting up a sub-domain?

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:55 pm 
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gws wrote:
If you do what nathandiehl says and goto your cpanel or whatever your server uses and open the redirect function and just point http://mydomain.com/index.html  to  http://mydomain.com/joomla this should do what you ask. However I believe you can have your joomla in root and use one of the sef modules configured so the url is always what you want, but best to ask a sef expert about that.

wouldnt this just do a redirect.
i.e. http://mydomains.com/index.html to http://www.mydomain.com/joomla/index.html
so that the link in the address bar is http://www.mydomain.com/joomla/index.html?

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Ahg! Yes sorry it will still show the /joomla/

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yeh so that will be the same as adding the redirect code to the page, but done throught the .htaccess file which makes the website more SEF.
but i guess the question here is:
is there a way of making a folder in such a way as to make it a virtual directory?
i.e. if you go to http://www.domainname.com it will go to domainname.com/joomla but will only show http://www.domainname.com.

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I still don't recommend doing what you want. It is not effecient and is not nice.

Joomla! plays very well with other folders co-loctated in the root (such as /blog).

Joomla! may not play very well with folders located above the root of the Joomla! install...

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:40 am 
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I understand.
I have installed my Joomla!  in the root.
Its just that I am curious if it is possible to direct a domain name to a folder which you have in your root whilst keeping the url in the address bar as http://www.domainname.com rather than http://www.domainname.com/subfolder.
What do people do when they have multiple domains on the one account?
Does the host creat virtual folders in the root?

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