renaming directory folder

[bluelion]

I apologize up front for how dumb this question is; I'm not brand new but I don't know much at all! (I do know I need to upgrade, but first things first.)

I have read and understand the tutorial ""I have installed ZC to a directory. How do I rename or move that directory?". I think I can do this once my question is resolved. Here goes:

My webhost says the landing page must be named index.xxx
Webhost is Lunarpages, Linux servers.
The top hierarchy is: /public_html/

Currently, the website's (www.dancingtothespiritofthewood.com) landing page is a home page (named index.htm) which has a link to http://www.dancingtothespiritofthewood.com/webstore which opens up the zen cart store. Works great.

I have to get rid of the website pages which are NOT a part of the webstore, and I want the site to open to the zencart home page when the url "http://www.mydomain.com" is typed into the browser.

The tutorial says to create a new folder name. It seems to me that if I follow the steps in the tutorial to create a folder in which to hold the zencart documents my webhost will not recognize the folder unless it's named index.xxx.

The current folder is named webstore.

What do I name the new folder? Or do I take the index.php document (currently in webstore/includes/languages/english and move it out of the folder named webstore and onto the server? (I'm pretty sure this would create a small disaster!)

I don't want to experiment if there's a simple (or even not so simple)answer. Thanks for your patience!

[twitchtoo]

1 - In your host cPanel, are there any domain forwards?

2 - What domain/folder is your configure.php pointing at for Zen Cart?

[bluelion]

Thank you for your input.

As far as I can tell (remember, I don't know much) there are no domain forwards. I checked cPanel—no redirects, no subdomains.

configure.php is here:

/public_html/webstore/includes/configure.php

(Or at least that seems to be the hierarchy).

[twitchtoo]

Thank you for your input.

As far as I can tell (remember, I don't know much) there are no domain forwards. I checked cPanel—no redirects, no subdomains.

configure.php is here:

/public_html/webstore/includes/configure.php

(Or at least that seems to be the hierarchy).

Open configure.php, does it direct the store/admin 'CATALOG' to the root or the sub directory?

[bluelion]

it says:

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/danci18/public_html/webstore/');

[bluelion]

it says:

define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/danci18/public_html/webstore/');

I've been reading lots of forum posts. Would the following work?

Remove all the zencart docs and folders from the primary "webstore" folder so the directory would be /public_html/... (all the documents contained in the current webstore folder)?

In other words, since my host says I have to have index.xxx at the "top level" under /public_html/ for the URL to work, do all the files and folders for zencart have to be in a separate folder named (in this case) webstore, or can they be taken out of the "top level" folder?