My zencart is installed in a folder, instead of the root directory.

http://www.cheapstairparts.com/ZenCart

I have a redirect, so if you just type in cheapstairparts.com it will redirect you to the folder... but I don't want the /ZenCart to show up.

As I understand, you can edit the .htaccess file to fix this, but I have no idea how to do this.

Can anybody look at this code and help me?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cheapstairparts.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.cheapstairparts.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/www\.cheapstairparts\.com\/ZenCart" [R=301,L]

Just make that folder the root folder of that website.

That'll do it.

What kind of server you using?

I am on shared hosting, because I have other domains, and changing root folders is not allowed.

My only option is editing this .htaccess file, and it is way above my level.

You can't copy the contents of /zencart into the root of that domain and edit the two configure.php files?

Maybe change the folder title to '.' or 'store' so its a little more palatable if your hosting package is that limiting.

Or maybe get a hosting package where you can control this sort of thing ;-)

well I can try to move everything to the root folder and edit the config files, is there anything else I need to change other than config files before I transfer?

Nope. That should do it - all you have to change is the paths, so just remove the /zencart from them and you should be good. You'll have to change permissions on the configure files to change them, of course.

I assume that in your previous post you meant that you couldn't point a domain to a subdirectory of another domain. My host doesn't allow that either on shared servers, and I think it's a good policy.

CheapStairParts:

My zencart is installed in a folder, instead of the root directory.

http://www.cheapstairparts.com/ZenCart

I have a redirect, so if you just type in cheapstairparts.com it will redirect you to the folder... but I don't want the /ZenCart to show up.

As I understand, you can edit the .htaccess file to fix this, but I have no idea how to do this.

Can anybody look at this code and help me?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cheapstairparts.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.cheapstairparts.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.cheapstairparts.com/ZenCart" [R=301,L]

Try this rewrite mod it works for me.

ReadWrite Rules SW 05.07.08

ZenCart installed in subdirectory but want URL to appear as root

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.mysite.com/ [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^$ store/index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/store%{REQUEST_URI} -f
RewriteRule .* store/$0 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* store/index.php?q=$0 [QSA]

Of course you would change **mysite** to your url and **store** to your subdirectory name

Next:
I edited includes/configure.php and changed the following from the install.
Code::

define('DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG', '/store/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/store/');

To this:
Code::

define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/');
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');

As for the admin config I made no changes.

NOTE: MAKE BACKUPS

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This "did" work but the CSS was not working after I did it.

I think I will just leave the /ZenCart on the URL, so far it isn't worth the trouble to fix.