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?

[stevesh]

You're making thei harder than it needs to be, I think.

Move all the folders and files from the /webstore directory to the root (public_html) directory.

Remove the index.html file from the public_html folder.

Edit the two configure.php Zencart files to remove all mention of /webstore (so the define above will be: define('DIR_FS_CATALOG', '/home/danci18/public_html/'); - (there are also other places to remove the /webstore part).

Done. Zencart uses index.php in the root to start your store.

[bluelion]

Thanks so much. I'll give it a try and let you know the results. I really appreciate this--can't try it right now but will do so later on today. Thanks again.

[bluelion]

Still not working...

I've been working on this on and off and followed your directions. I did get everything out of webstore folder, reset the configure.php in includes and admin, but when I go to the site the text has loaded but none of the images.

I reset sessions in the admin session directory as well. Anything I try to do out of admin takes me to a error page which shows this: The requested URL /webstore/xxxx/admin.php was not found on this server.

where xxxx is the renamed admin folder. So there is still some setting that says webstore, right?

HELP!!!!!

[bluelion]

Still not working...

I've been working on this on and off and followed your directions. I did get everything out of webstore folder, reset the configure.php in includes and admin, but when I go to the site the text has loaded but none of the images.

I reset sessions in the admin session directory as well. Anything I try to do out of admin takes me to a error page which shows this: The requested URL /webstore/xxxx/admin.php was not found on this server.

where xxxx is the renamed admin folder. So there is still some setting that says webstore, right?

HELP!!!!!

MORE INFO AND UPDATE

I found a couple of lines of code with /webstore/ that I had failed to change. But the site still does not load images. www.dancingtothespiritofthewood.com

--when I updated the code for the directories (for such things as DIR_WS_CATALOG) I used the entire path (home/danci18/public_html) instead of just public_html. In some places there was previously just /webstore/ and in some the entire path.

--I changed includes/configure.php and xxxx (new admin)/includes/configure.php.

--In Admin Configuration Sessions, I changed it to /home/danci18/public_html/cache. I can't change it back now--it still takes me to error message "The requested URL /home/danci18/public_html/ha5Ly2/configuration.php was not found on this server."


--to deal with hacking issues from several years ago, I created a new admin folder with xxxx (not the real name) for its name. There is still a folder named Admin which has the following folders in it: includes, classes, functions, and modules. Under the old directory hierarchy (/webstore/) everything was working fine, so I don't think I need to delete it, but should I move those files into the xxxx (new admin) folder?

Thanks so much for any and all help.