Domain name question

**flex22** · 21 May 2007, 02:46 PM

Currently to get to my store I need to add /shop to the end of my domain name.
However I would like it so that via my domain nam only, I can access the store.
In other words I want my store front to be the home page.
How do I do that?

Thanks in advance

**Get Em Fast** · 21 May 2007, 05:32 PM

Flex, in order to do this, you need to move all the contents from the folder "shop" into the main directory, "www", "pub", "public", whichever it may be. you will, then, need to edit the admin/includes/configure.php and includes/configure.php to reflect this change. eg; remove the "shop" from the path, in both of these files.

Hope this helps.

**flex22** · 21 May 2007, 05:59 PM

OK, there seems to be a lot of places where it says shop in the configure file.Do you know exactly which part I have to delete the word 'shop' from?

Thanks!

**Get Em Fast** · 21 May 2007, 07:18 PM

Oh, yea. All of them. As your site will no longer be in that folder, ANY reference to that particular folder will result in an error being shown, instead of your site.

**Get Em Fast** · 21 May 2007, 07:25 PM

Edit: except for this one, unless you want to change your database.

define('DB_DATABASE', 'shop');

It may say something else, depending on what you named your database, but you DON'T want to change this entry on either file. The rest you can change.
Sorry. Forgot about that one.

**rwment** · 21 May 2007, 07:43 PM

Well there is an easier way, you can do a permanent redirect on the default index page.

**greengreetings** · 8 Jun 2009, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Get Em Fast

Oh, yea. All of them. As your site will no longer be in that folder, ANY reference to that particular folder will result in an error being shown, instead of your site.

It worked perfectly AND now my domain page shows up instead of just a blank page. Wherever there was a following slash in my configure files I left it. Examples from admin:

define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/catalog/admin/'); became define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/admin/');

define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/usr/www/users/username/catalog/cache'); became define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/usr/www/users/username/cache');

define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/catalog/'); became define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

Thanks so much. It solved other problems I had.

**Get Em Fast** · 8 Jun 2009, 06:08 PM

Glad to help. It's good to see everybody got everything fixed.

**ThePatch** · 21 May 2007, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by flex22

OK, there seems to be a lot of places where it says shop in the configure file.Do you know exactly which part I have to delete the word 'shop' from?

Thanks!

If you go this route using the 'Find and Replace' might make your life easier.

**rwment** · 21 May 2007, 10:21 PM

Actually it isn't cheesy at all. I use an index.php page instead of a index.html page:

<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.got-its.com/zencart/" );
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.got-its.com/zencart/" );
?>

Google loves it as I use their HTML method of verification and I didnt have to move my file structure around or alter my config files.

The only difference the consumer sees is the addition of a subdirectory on their address bar.

Of course having your store in your root folder is ideal but those of us that already have a crapload of stuff there for other things it is not always feasible, that and the fact that I try not to alter the config files if I dont have to.

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