Hiding Joomla Subdirectory

2012-01-21 19:31:25

I had an old joomla intallation in the main folder and after installing the new version in subfolder i followed your directions and managed to switch the domain nice and quick.

BUT, in the administrator panel, every time I save article, the panel "throws" me to the previous joomla installation...!

Any Idea how to fix that?

Thanks ahead!!!

2011-11-21 18:26:03

I just installed Joomla 1.7.3 on godaddy. This worked for my will a small change to step 1 on the webroot .htacess.

I added the following two lines off of the example he referenced.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Add trailing slash if path does not contain a period or end with a slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.|/$)
RewriteRule (.*) http://yoursite.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

#Change http://yoursite.com to http://www.yoursite.com (Optional)
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com$
#RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#### Rewrites http://www.yoursite.com/subdir to http://www.yoursite.com/
## Added this to allow existing files and directories to work
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
## Now the rewrite of subdir to rootdir
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/joomla
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ joomla/$1 [L]

2011-10-14 14:10:35

This worked except for one piece, the webroot .htaccess file for me was not getting to the Joomla joomla/index.php file. So here is the change I made in my instance:

## Now the rewrite of subdir to rootdir
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/joomla
RewriteRule ^$ joomla/index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ joomla/$1 [L]

77.57.191.97

Hi All,

Thank you very much for this guideline.

I've followed it to the point but unfortunately when typing http://yoursite.com into the browser address field leads me to the GoDaddy "Coming soon" default page.

When however I include the suffix index.php i.e. http://yoursite.com/index.php my website included within the joomla subdirectory comes up.

Is there anything I could have missed? I would appreciate your ideas.

Thank you!
Jan

82.12.10.84

I have some issue in website

i kept joomla in one folder called joomla,but I want to see my page in direct domain www.mywebsite.com

but now I can see www.mywebsite.com/Joomla

How can i redirect to my site to main host.

for example

www.mywebsite.com/folder..it works
I want to see www.mywebsite.com

can u please assist how to do it

74.70.157.155

RewriteBase /mastersoft/

# Add trailing slash if path does not contain a period or end with a slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.|/$)
RewriteRule (.*) http://mastersoftindia.com.com/$1/ [R=301,L]

#Change http://mastersoftindia.com to http://www.mastersoftindia.com (Optional)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mastersoftindia.com$
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://www.mastersoftindia.com/$1 [R=301,L]
#### Rewrites http://www.mastersoftindia.com/mastersoft to http://www.mastersoftindia.com/
## Added this to allow existing files and directories to work
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
## Now the rewrite of subdir to rootdir
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mastersoft
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mastersoft/$1 [L]

74.70.157.155

Change:
RewriteBase /mastersoft/
To:
RewriteBase /
...............
Everything else looks OK to me. Also, see Trent's message below. There are two (2).htaccess files being changed in 2 separate directories. One has RewriteBase / and the other should be RewriteBase /mastersoft

72.66.49.118

I want to thank you for this simple, smart and perfect resolution for this issue...All the best to you....Nick.

2010-10-06 12:39:49

Unfortunately option 2 did not work for me

74.70.157.155

Success! THANK YOU! The directions are great and easy to follow. One small thing to consider is that in step 2 of the .htaccess option you must change "#RewriteBase /" to "RewriteBase /joomla" (text inside this file) BEFORE renaming the file (removing the .txt). Otherwise you may not be able to open it. Also remember to name BOTH .htaccess files with no .txt extension. That's my small comment. Thank you again! Life saver!

72.84.251.183

This is almost perfect. It is by far the simplest format to follow. I just have one issue. I did a test by copying the folder and it worked except after the home page all other pages still had .../joomla/new... I thought it was because I didn't move the folder. So I tried by moving the folder and I just got 404 errors.