Joomla Joomla Tips and Tricks #38 - Moving Joomla from subfolder to the root
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| Friday, 18 July 2008 | |
#38 - Moving Joomla from subfolder to the rootAnother question which pops up a million times of the Joomla forums, is how to move your website from www.yourdomain.com/joomla to www.yourdomain.com. This is actually not too difficult to do, so here goes.
Basically the first thing you need to do is copy all the file structure from the /joomla directory to the webroot, typically public_html directory. Using FileZilla (ftp software, move the /joomla to its parent folder. You can simply select all files and folders and Joomla and drag and drop them to the .. folder (parent). This will move them to the root folder. Another procedure is to move them to the local drive, and upload back to the root file. 1. Using ftp software download a copy of everything from the /joomla subdirectory to your local hard drive 2. ftp a copy of all of that from your local drive back out to the root web directory Once you have copied all the files, you will need to make a couple of changes to the configuration.php file. Again, using FTP software, edit the configuration.php file and remove the reference to the /joomla subdirectory from the $log_path and $tmp_path. Once the configuration changes have been done, you can access your website at www.yourdomain.com |
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| Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 October 2008 ) |
