how to move index.php

[rnomis]

Hi Guys,

Nearly ready to let my site loose after a lot of trial and error but would like to move the catalog/index.php out of the catalog folder and into the root so it will become the default page. How should I go about it? Great product btw, keep up the excellent work.

Simon

just copy all files in the catalog dir to the root dir

[kodersoftware]

or use a meta tag refresh/redirect on index.html, transferring the visitor instantly to /catalog/. only drawback there is search engines trying to index, but at least you'd still have your standard installation in the default folder.

[Redbeard]

The simple way to do this is to make an entry in your .htaccess file to assign the catalog directory to be the default place the webserver looks for a starting page.

In your .htaccess file, add:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm /catalog/index.php

It will look for files in the order listed above. If it doesn't find it, then it moves to the next.

Dan

Originally Posted by Redbeard

The simple way to do this is to make an entry in your .htaccess file to assign the catalog directory to be the default place the webserver looks for a starting page.

In your .htaccess file, add:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm /catalog/index.php

It will look for files in the order listed above. If it doesn't find it, then it moves to the next.

Dan

Hello,
I tried this, and when I tried to login to the admin panel it was as if it did not exist. Can you please assist. I am trying to make my catalog my default page so no one has to type mydomain.com/catalog

Originally Posted by Redbeard

The simple way to do this is to make an entry in your .htaccess file to assign the catalog directory to be the default place the webserver looks for a starting page.

In your .htaccess file, add:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm /catalog/index.php

It will look for files in the order listed above. If it doesn't find it, then it moves to the next.

Dan

Hello,
I tried this, and when I tried to login to the admin panel it was as if it did not exist. Can you please assist. I am trying to make my catalog my default page so no one has to type mydomain.com/catalog