Putting my main page in a sub-folder?

[aliasneo]

I have created a sub-domain of my site.

Main domain is elaosta.com and a sub-domain hamid.elaosta.com.

hamid.elaosta.com is a subdomain with it's own sub-directory as its root. I then created a folder inside it's root "wordpress".

What I want is for the URL hamid.elaosta.com take me straight into that "wordpress" sub-dir without adding "wordpress" to the end of the domain as it currently does with my redirect (permenant).

Any ideas please?

 

[DeadBattery]

You could just go into cPanel's file manager and move all the files in ~/public_html/wordpress/ to ~/public_html/
(one directory above)

 

[aliasneo]

You could just go into cPanel's file manager and move all the files in ~/public_html/wordpress/ to ~/public_html/
(one directory above)

Yeh, I know, but I wanted to keep it in a sub-dir to be tidy, because I plan to add a forum in there later too which wants a directory of its own.

 

[shant93]

You can try using .htaccess files. To figure out how to use such a file, google " .htaccess " and it should be pretty easy from that point on.

You'd have something like

DirectoryIndex wordpress/index.html

Don't overuse .htaccess files, they are not efficient. Also, I am not sure if you are even allowed on x10, I forgot to check, but if you are, that is the solution you are looking for.

 

[aliasneo]

You can try using .htaccess files. To figure out how to use such a file, google " .htaccess " and it should be pretty easy from that point on.

You'd have something like

DirectoryIndex wordpress/index.html

Don't overuse .htaccess files, they are not efficient. Also, I am not sure if you are even allowed on x10, I forgot to check, but if you are, that is the solution you are looking for.

I guess it is allowed becuse the cPanel automatically created a .htaccess for me when I created the redirect that contains the following:

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

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^hamid.hamid.x10.mx$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.hamid.hamid.x10.mx$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/hamid\.hamid\.x10\.mx\/wordpress" [R=301,L]

How do I modify this to include what you mentioned?

 

[lemon-tree]

I'm not sure you can actually use DirectoryIndex to point to an index in another directory, but I may be wrong as I have never actually tried. You may have to use URL rewriting, as is already used in your .htaccess.

 

[aliasneo]

I'm not sure you can actually use DirectoryIndex to point to an index in another directory, but I may be wrong as I have never actually tried. You may have to use URL rewriting, as is already used in your .htaccess.

Ok, how about I modify the root directory of that sub-domain to wordpress/. Would I still be able to access things above it is I specify them explicitly?

 

[lemon-tree]

Are you looking to redirect only one single page? If so, you could just add this to the end of your .htaccess:

RewriteRule ^/$ /subfolder/index.html

Edit: Might be something wrong in there actually, so it might not work.

 

[aliasneo]

Are you looking to redirect only one single page? If so, you could just add this to the end of your .htaccess:

If I understand the question correctly, yes. Essentially, I want http://hamid.elaosta.com -> wordpress/index.php.

But I don't want it to change the URL in the title-bar to http://hamid.elaosta.com/wordpress/index.php.

 

[clairev]

Just use a frame

 

[lemon-tree]

OK, that last one I gave you was wrong. If you just want to redirect the one page it is:

RewriteRule ^$ /wordpress/index.php

All other files will show the wordpress directory in the URL bar.

If you want all queries to go into Wordpress directory. e.g. http://hamid.elaosta.com/item to open http://hamid.elaosta.com/wordpress/item then use this one:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /wordpress/$1 [NC]

Note however that this may cause odd problems elsewhere if you have more than the wordpress installed as the wordpress directory will effectively become the root directory.

 

[aliasneo]

Thanks, should I keep the rest of the redirect info in there or remove it all and replace with this? I'm sure I can live with this for now, when I make the others I may make them sub-domains like forum.hamid.elaosta.com but it depends on how ugly that is going to be, not a priority at the moment though.

 

[lemon-tree]

I suggest you leave all the other things there and append that line on the end. Those other lines look like they are redirecting your old domain to your new one.

 

[aliasneo]

I suggest you leave all the other things there and append that line on the end. Those other lines look like they are redirecting your old domain to your new one.

Apending didn't work, infact it made me competely unable to access the blog at all and I had to make some other changes.

Fortunately, Wordpress provides a simpler solution. The index.php for the blog can be shifted up as many directories as necessary from the content and then the only line of code in it edited to point to the correct subfolder (it chainloads the main content).

I think we can call it solved now, thanks for the guidance that eventually got me to a solution.