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Old 08-16-2008
Have htdocs/site/ show up at root
I have a site, www.mySite.com

I have a folder where pages are served from, htdocs/

I have a folder containing one site at htdocs/drupal/. I'd like to be able to go to www.mySite.com and see the index.php page within the drupal folder, but instead I see a directory listing:
drupal
phpBB3

How can I make this index page show up at www.mySite.com, and how can I hide the directory?

I think this is easily accomplished in Apache's config file, httpd.conf, but I can't figure it out.

Thank you so much! This is driving me crazy.
# 2  
Old 08-18-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by kumakuma
How can I make this index page show up at www.mySite.com
There are many ways to do it. Reading this would help you.
# 3  
Old 08-19-2008
Still confused
Thank you very much for the link. After reading through it, I don't think that's exactly what I need. I want someone to go to www.example.com and see the page that really lives at www.example.com/drupal. I can see how I could redirect them from www.example.com to www.example.com/drupal, but I don't want the name in the address bar in the browser to ever change...

I was looking at RewriteBase inthe .htaccess file in my drupal directory, but wasn't sure if that was the correct way to go.

Sorry, but I'm still confused...

Thanks in advance!
Last edited by kumakuma; 08-19-2008 at 06:00 PM.. Reason: didn't want URLs parsed
# 4  
Old 08-19-2008
It's a really unattractive way to work, but if you don't want the address to ever change, then something like this could be what you want.

index.html:
Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>mysite</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="*,0">
<FRAME SRC="http://www.mysite.com/drupal" NORESIZE>
<NOFRAMES>
Your browser does not support frames.
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

# 5  
Old 08-19-2008
Interesting
Wow, that's a very clever way to get it working! I tried it and it does indeed work. Thank you!

Sorry, I didn't mean I don't want the address bar to never change; I meant I didn't want to redirect visitors from www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/drupal (which seems fairly easy to do with .htaccess, but then they would see the address bar change).

Ideally, I'd like visitors to be able to go to www.mysite.com and see what is in my public_html/drupal folder. The way I have it now, they would see a directory listing containing a drupal folder and a phpBB3 folder.

Of course, I could accomplish this by moving all the stuff from my drupal folder to public_html folder, but I'd like to keep things organized and keep the drupal site contained within the drupal folder.

I know there's some simple way to do this... I tried creating a symlink of the index.php file in the drupal folder in the public_html folder, but it didn't work.

Seems like I would need the drupal folder to be the RewriteBase for all the links from within the drupal folder to work correctly... (I'm not sure if this is the right variable, but after reading about it in the httpd.conf file, it seems like I'll need to incorporate it.
# 6  
Old 08-19-2008
Isn't it just a virtual domain you need here? If you want anybody visiting www.mysite.com to end up in ~/public_html/drupal/ and want anybody visiting via another alias (like www.mysitephpbb.com) to end up in ~/public_html/phpBB3/ then that would be the simplest solution I'd say...

If that is what you are after, add the following to your config:
Code:
<VirtualHost *>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@mysite.com
    DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs/drupal
    ServerName www.mysite.com
</VirtualHost>

That should get you close. There's loads of docs out there for virtual hosting under apache
# 7  
Old 08-20-2008
Almost 100% solved!
That's what I was looking for! Thank you very much!

I added the following to my httpd.conf file to test this out:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin webmaster@mysite.com
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/public_html/someFolder
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

When I visited http://localhost, the index.html file in public_html/someFolder showed up! Thanks again for your help!

However, then I added the following folder and file: public_html/anotherFolder/index.html. When I tried to visit localhost/anotherFolder/index.html, I got a 404 error. Can't other files be served out of the public_html root? I also placed some links in the index.html file residing in someFolder to files nested within someFolder, and those weren't found either...
Last edited by kumakuma; 08-20-2008 at 03:38 AM..
 
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