upgrading

[spawnie69]

my main domain is gelcandlecompany.com
I worked on a new site in a folder called /shop and upgraded database successfully! HALLELUJAH!
gelcandecompany.com/shop all working great!

Now my question is how can i get my gelcandlecompany.com to display what is on gelcandlecompany.com/shop?

Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you

[spawnie69]

i tried to use cpanel to set the domain to make the change for gelcandlecompany.com to to run at /shop folder and the host and said i would need to have the shop files dumps in the root along with the other subfolder sites. is this true?

[spawnie69]

my main domain was on 1.54 and the running upgraded 2.1.0 shop is at gelcandlecompany.com/shop

[swguy]

You need to create (or update) an .htaccess file in the root of your store. It should say:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /shop/ [L]

also put an index.php at root that says:

<?php
header("/shop/");

[spawnie69]

On a new install at root attempting to login at admin gives me 500 error therefore I will do exactly what you suggested in the am. Thanks drbyte for your help.

[spawnie69]

I did exactly what you told me to do and now i have a 500 internal error at gelcandlecompany.com
Any suggestions? thank you

[swguy]

You have a log in shop/logs that will give you an indication of what went wrong.

[spawnie69]

You have a log in shop/logs that will give you an indication of what went wrong.

first one says [02-Mar-2026 17:25:28 America/Boise] ERROR: Failed sending email to: "Admin" <admin@localhost> with subject: "Admin login failure notice" (failed validation)

along with a bunch of errors in the log.

I confess.. before following your steps today, I did attempt to just do a clean install at the root and again was unable to enter the admin password successfully at the end of the upgrade giving me the 500 error once again.

[spawnie69]

so i deleted all the files at the root except the sub folder zen shops.

Then i followed your steps.
then screwed it up.

all sub folders don't show now.

aromawarmers.com
incredigels.com

[spawnie69]

Should i undo the recommended changes and perform a new install in a new folder, upgrade then follow your steps as you outlined earlier?
Thank you