Changing root directory (index.*, etc.)

[smc42190]

I've searched but wasn't able to find what I needed (most replies said "just make your own index.html etc." but I know that, of course).

I have a domain at GoDaddy.com (stephencope.net) and I've set the nameservers and parked the domain and it's all swell. However, I have wordpress set up and it's in a folder named, surprise, wordpress. This means the index.php is not in the wordpress folder and when I go to http://stephencopeblog.x10hosting.com or to http://stephencope.net, it takes me to the directory page (as I have no index.html file) rather than to the http://stephencopeblog.x10hosting.com/wordpress.

As well, I'm hoping this will fix my other question. I want to have it so that clicking a link hosted here (by me, I mean, clicking on my blog titles or on my home page) keeps the http://stephencope.net in the address bar. I don't want "http://stephencopeblog.x10hosting.com" to show up at all. So people can link others to http://stephencope.net/1023490/sdfjkla;jdf/qwer1234ji; or whatever, rather than http://stephencopeblog.x10hosting.com/1023490/sdfjkla;jdf/qwer1234ji;. Does that make sense?

Thanks. Any ideas?

 

[sunils]

Hi,

just put a index page with the following code in it.

<script language="javascript">
location =http://stephencope.net;
</script>

Upload the page to your public_html directory.

now when you put http://stephencope.net in your browser it will automatically go to
http://stephencope.net/wordpress instead of the directory listing.

 

[smc42190]

Brilliant.

I need to learn some scripting. I'd no idea a redirect was that simple. Thanks.

Edit:

That worked fantastically. Now I need to figure out the masking sort of issue. Any ideas?

Edit 2:

Also, the website stops working every few minutes and then works again. Seems to be a host thing, but I'm not sure? It's just weird to me. Any ideas there?

 

[lemon-tree]

You could also set up a permanent redirect in Cpanel. It will work slightly better with Google then.

 

[smc42190]

Hmm, my site continues to bounce on and off. Anybody have this problem before?

 

[misson]

The free servers go down all the time.

As for the redirects, the Javascript redirect may hurt your standing with search engines (spiders don't always support JS). A slightly better (but still deprecated) alternative is to use a Meta refresh, which uses the Meta element to simulate a Refresh header (a proprietary HTTP header supported by the major browsers).

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;http://stephencope.net/wordpress" />

lemon-tree's suggestion is the best to redirect http://stephencopeblog.x10hosting.com to http://stephencopeblog.x10hosting.com/wordpress. You might be able to set the document root for stephencope.net to /public_html/wordpress, depending on how the domain name is mapped to the x10 server. If it's controlled from the x10 servers, addon domains let you set the document root for a domain (look to "Addon Domains" in cPanel).

 

[smc42190]

Okay. I'd had it as a parked domain but switched it to an addon domain.

Domain name: stephencope.net
Root: Home/public_html/wordpress
Username: stephencope
Redirects: not redirected (Remove) (Manage Redirection)

That look about right? Something's going wrong still, but I think that's on the domain name side and I'll work on that now.

 

[misson]

Looks good. stephencope.net resolves to 216.245.203.58, which is cossacks.x10hosting.com. http://stephencope.net/ opens the main page. The server response is slow, but cossacks might just be under a heavy load right now.

Edit: looks like cossacks was in the middle of going down when I visited http://stephencope.net/, which is why the server response was so slow.