My domain as homepage

**icklebits** · 7 Dec 2006, 11:22 PM

Hi there,

I have finished my site and want to make the front page of the shop appear when my domain is typed in www.icklebits.co.uk

My shop is in a folder called "cart" in the public_html folder. The front page of the shop shows up when I put in www.icklebits.co.uk/cart but not when I just put in my domain.

I'm sure this is a simple question for you computer whizzes but I would really appreciate a reply. I'veposted another question before and never got a reply so PLEASE could someone help me out!

I need to launch the new shop before morning so am anxious to fix it!

Thanks in advance!

D

**bombknex** · 7 Dec 2006, 11:38 PM

Hey D,

I believe the answer you are looking for is right here:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=18

Basically:

1. backup everything through your host to your pc.
2. upload/move all site files to your public_html directory (in your case you should just re-upload all the files from your backup)
3. make the changes in your config giles
4. modify the sessions cache option or download and use the fix_cache_key utility

Good luck!

**Wils** · 7 Dec 2006, 11:42 PM

Hi,

One quick fix would be to use an iframe in the index.html of your site.

The only contents would be

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Icklebits</title>
</head>
<body>
<frameset rows="*">
<frame src="http://www.icklebits.co.uk/cart" scrolling="auto"></frameset>
</body>
</html>

Another option would be a redirect:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Icklebits</title>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.icklebits.co.uk/cart"></HEAD>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Better/best would be to just move your site to the root, by re-uploading it and changing in the configuration files. This would be the cleanest thing to do (see FAQ on this topic for details).

Also, it appears some files are missing in the /cart, such as the index.xxx files!

You may want to look at preventing directory listing, renaming the admin directory.

Hope this helps to get you going for your morning launch!

**icklebits** · 8 Dec 2006, 12:16 AM

Hi!

Um...I was fiddling with it when you would have got that missing file...it's up there now. I've just made a page up on my www.icklebits.co.uk to link through for now.

I must be honest....I really don't understand the instructions... well I didup until the config files bit....(and cannot believe that with all my searching I missed a tutorial file! Doh!)....

...I will fiddle with it and then come back to you in a bit!

Thank you for your time.....wish me luck!!!

D

**icklebits** · 8 Dec 2006, 12:28 AM

Me again!

It appears it will take 2 hours on dial up to download the files to my pc so I'm going to have to leave it till morning because am too tired. (I must be getting old!)

I think I may understand you now...have looked at the tutorial link you gave me etc and think it makes sense.

If I'm still stuck in the morning I will post again!

Thankyou sooooooo much for your help, much appreciated!

D

**icklebits** · 14 Dec 2006, 02:14 PM

HELP!

I tried to do that and I just got this message:

Warning: main(includes/application_top.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ar01ickl/public_html/index.php on line 26

Warning: main(includes/application_top.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ar01ickl/public_html/index.php on line 26

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/application_top.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/ar01ickl/public_html/index.php on line 26

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