A bit of help with going live and directories please!

Hello!

I built a site on my domain. The public folder is called htdocs and into that I put the catalog directory. I had a temporary page up 'under construction'.

Now - I've taken down my under construction page. My zen cart is still sitting in the directory called catalog in my public htdocs file.... but - no one can see it.

So - I've put another page up as a temporary home page - to divert into my zen cart!

I've read the section in the help about moving directories, and I think it makes sense... but I was a bit worried as if I move everything up a level - it means I won't have a directory called 'catalog' anymore. And I wasn't sure that was right!

https://www.indigo-island.co.uk is where you'll see the divert page
the zen cart is reachable from https://www.indigo-island.co.uk/catalog

This is only supposed to be stage 1! I want to put it on my .com next - but till I work out this bit, I'm just a bit confused!)

Thank you!

There's no particular reason to have a directory called /catalog/. It's just a matter of how you want your site set up. So if you have a good handle on the moving instructions, go ahead and move your site to the root.
If you have gotten any amount of search engine activity at your present location, you may want to put a redirect from /catalog/ to your root so those results are not lost.

Thanks! I was hoping as much but thought it'd be just my luck that I did something horribly wrong if I moved everything up.

The only bit I'm not sure of then is when I update the configure php files and I need to put new path info in where it says DIR_WW_CATALOG etc if I haven't got a catalog file anymore.........

(does it show I have no idea what I'm doing - but can follow instructions!)

Re traffic. My dot com is busy and the .co.uk is a new one, it was only really so I could test out a new site with zen before Christmas as I didn't dare take down the working site on .com..... but then I liked my new site - I figured I'd do a divert into it till I can sort them out properly

So.... a little advice on renaming for my paths for the configure files would be apreciated..... and then I'll give it all a go in the morning when I'm feeling braver than I do right now! :smile:

The DIR_WS_CATALOG constant is only a name for where your catalog's (shopping cart's) files go. It makes no difference what it is named as long as it is correctly documented. If you are moving from /catalog/ to the root, DIR_WS_CATALOG will change from '/catalog/' to '/' or something like that. The FAQ and the configuration files themselves give the exact form to follow.

:smile: Brilliant thanks! Will give it a go and be back if I get in a mess!