Can I move the index page of the shop?

**rohitsax** · 15 Jun 2006, 03:25 AM

Hi!

I have installed my shopping cart on www.mydomain.com/shop .

Now I want that when people go to www.mydomain.com they get to the shop automatically. One way to do this is to put a auto-redirect page in the www.mydomain.com directory.

I'm assuming this will create problems for search engines.

So is there a way to move the main page file in the /shop/ directory to the main domain directory from the admin panel?

thanks and regards
Rohit

**Merlinpa1969** · 15 Jun 2006, 03:28 AM

download the files to your desktop

open includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php

find and replace shop/ with nothing

then save and re-upload to your account root

**rohitsax** · 15 Jun 2006, 05:53 AM

Thanks! But do I have to download and upload all the directory files.. or will making the changes in these two files and uploading them back will fix things?

**Merlinpa1969** · 15 Jun 2006, 06:02 AM

you need to get the core files into the root directory
if you dont want to use a redirect...

its Not a big deal download the sub directory, ( entire folder )
on desktop rename it public_html ( your root directlry file name if different )
zip it
upload the zip, shouldnt take but a few mins, then unzip on the server

**misty** · 15 Jun 2006, 06:05 AM

I'm assuming this will create problems for search engines.

Have a store set up where redirect htaccess file routes main
index page of domain to store. Had/has no effect whatsoever re search
engines.. works fine
HTH

**kay6284** · 29 Aug 2006, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Merlinpa1969

download the files to your desktop

open includes/configure.php and admin/includes/configure.php

find and replace shop/ with nothing

then save and re-upload to your account root

I'm trying to do something similar. I have a teststore that is setup and I want to change it from mydomain/teststore to mydomain/newstore. I'm not sure if I understand exactly what needs to be done. Do I need to copy all the files from /teststore to my computer, make changes admin/configure.php and includes/configure.php, then, upload into /newstore?

kay6284