root directory

[shiningfaery]

I am getting ready to move my zen cart from its current location to the root directory I have tutorial 122 so no need to post it.

My question is how do I know which folder to put it to?

my ftp shows a folder just named ... this is what i suspect is the root i am just making sure I have the right folder before I start.

[shiningfaery]

oh I meant to add as well I have located zen cart in 3 different locations on my ftp I have been customising the one in public_html again is this the one I should move?

[kuroi]

That depends on your hosting arrangement and how your FTP account has been set up.

FTP accounts don't necessarily point to your site root folder. Indeed the default one often points to a higher level so that you can store files outside the webroot.

Your webroot can have a wide variety of different names depending upon how your server is configured. public_html and httpdocs are common, but I must have seen at least a dozen variations.

So, this is sounding like a question for your webhost.

Additional note: our posts crossed ... the site in your public_html file is probably already in your site's root.

[shiningfaery]

I was afraid of that, my hosting technical help are useless and I am being nice!! I will give them a try and see if they can answer my question....

[shiningfaery]

According to my host zen cart should be in public_html folder which it is and to be shown on my site as I want it should have the index.htm file in the folder which is doesnt I have located this file in a folder named web documents and all it has is the index.htm file so do I put zc in web documents or do I move it the other way round or do I ignore this completly??

[kuroi]

Zen Cart is a dynamic php application which is run from index.php, not index.htm or index.html (which are for static HTML sites). Although there are some .html files dotted around Zen Cart, they're there to stop people from browsing your directories and their purpose is solely defensive - ifnore them.

It sounds as though your site is already in the right place ... but you've never quite told us why you're not happy with it as it is now.

[shiningfaery]

well basically kuroi my shop is http://delightfullyxquisite.com/delight2_zc1/ and I want it to show on www.delightfullyxquisite.com

[kuroi]

I'm afraid that this a back to your host issue.

From the public side of your server I can see that the URL I would expect to use to access your Zen Cart dynamically in your site's root (http://delightfullyxquisite.com/index.php) doesn't, and the static location to which sites redirect when there's a problem (http://www.delightfullyxquisite.com/nddbc.html) isn't there either.

This could mean that:

1. public_html isn't your site root (unlikely)
2. that your site isn't in public_html (but you've already told us it is)
3. there is some redirection and/or URL re-writing going on in the site root

Unfortunately, although 3. is the most likely scenario, we can't see what's happening from the public side of your site (which from a security perspective, is a good thing).

[shiningfaery]

Ok so what would be the way to approach this or find out because when I have my shop the way I want it which is soon I will be wanting it to show up on www.delightfullyxquisite.com
the page that shows up there is in a folder called rvsitebuiler not in public html but in same folder thats it is in side by side, if that makes sense so in simplistic terms if I delete rvsitebuilder will zen cart show up?

[kuroi]

This is more evidence suggesting the presence of redirection in your hosting account. You will need to turn that off to achieve what you're after, but how is not something that I can tell from looking at your site form the outside.

However, I can be reasonably confident that deleting the destination to which your account is re-directed is unlikely to help.