[BlueOnyx:17343] Re: Wishlist :)

[Colin Jack]

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>> On 21 Mar 2015, at 5:13 am, Colin Jack <colin at mainline.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi Chuck,
>> 
>> 
>>> Why move the document root at all?
>>> 
>>> We set up Joomla or Wordpress for existing customers in a directory
>>>named "cms" inside their existing website.  Then when they're ready to
>>>go live with the Joomla, we put a index.php file in the website root
>>>directory (/web) that redirects from the root directory into that
>>>/web/cms directory.  Like this:
>>> 
>>> <?php 
>>> header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently");
>>> header("Location: http://www.whatever.com/cms/");
>>> ?> 
>> 
>> We used to do that but found that people complained that it screwed up
>>SEO having a permanent redirect at the root of their website.
>> 
>> Colin
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>Try this...
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>Rename the top level domain to something like junksite.domain.com
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>Then - create a vsite under the top level domain with the hostname as www
>.... and have it point to the joomla subdirectory. No special config -
>its already built into the gui :)
>
>GK
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That¹s an idea Š although just changing the sitex file in
/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts is no big deal really.

Just thought it might be quite easy for Michael to add in another field -
but certainly not a major thing! :)

Colin


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