Subdomains

[cate_kroft]

I was customizing my welcome email and noticed that my shop url is http://d9studios.net/shp/
I want it to be http://shop.d9studios.net/

How would I do this? Thank you.

[GSIS]

You'd need to use your web site control panel to set up a subdomain called shop.d9studios.net.

I've done something similar with my carts - www.swiftbooks.co.uk is the live site, but I'm currently working on develop.swiftbooks.co.uk which is a subdomain. I've pointed the subdomain to public_html/develop but the files for the live domain are under public_html.

[cate_kroft]

I've got the subdomain set up and pointing to the store. I want to change the welcome email and all other zen cart stuff that says my store is at http://d9studios.net/shp instead of http://shop.d9studios.net/

[afo]

Start with the information in admin/includes/configure.php and includes/configure.php.

[cate_kroft]

What do I change in those files? I know very little of PHP.

Thanks for your help,

[gjh42]

See this tutorial:
I have installed Zen Cart to a directory. How do I rename or move that directory?

[cate_kroft]

That's not what I want to do. http://shop.d9studios.net/ points to http://d9studios.net/shp already. In my welcome emails and such it writes that my address is http://d9studios.net/shp I want to make it so that it reads http://shop.d9studios.net/

How would I do that?

[GSIS]

Point your subdomain (shop.d9studios.net) to a directory in your public_html directory (or whatever it's called in your case) called 'shop'.

Put your Zen Cart system in that directory.

Edit your config files (not sure what they're called OTOH) to point to the shop folder. There's plenty of info around on how to successfully move a system from one folder to another (in the forum and the FAQs). You'll find there's two files to change - one for the catalogue and the other for admin - each with some URLs and physical paths.

As you're not relocating a database all of that should be ok.

[afo]

As I said before:

Start with the information in admin/includes/configure.php and includes/configure.php.

You need to open those files locally (on your computer) using an editor like Crimson Editor or Notepad++. No knowledge of php is necessary. Change any references to d9studios.net/shp in those files to shop.d9studios.net/. When you're done, you'll have to FTP the changed files to the matching folders on your website. SmartFTP and FileZilla are good FTP clients.