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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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