By raycampbell on

I have a site under development set up with Drupal up and running in a /drupal subdirectory.

When I straight to that subdirectory the Drupal page shows up more or less ok.

Problem is, when I go to the main site URL, I got a listing of the site index.

I set up a HTML homepage with a redirect to the Drupal directory to deal with that, but I figure there has to be a more elegant solution. I could not find it in searching the documentation and the forums.

Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks.

Ray

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bjornarneson’s picture

bjornarneson commented

What is it that you want to do? Simply redirect from http://example.com to http://example.com/drupal? The HTML redirect that you already set up will work.

You could also redirect with an .htaccess file in your root directory. Google "htaccess redirect" and you'll find some tutorials.

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raycampbell’s picture

raycampbell commented

Thanks all.

The html refresh, while inelegant, is getting the job done, so for now I am going to leave it that way. I am keenly aware of my technical limitations, and I am afraid that if I start messing around with .htaccess or moving Drupal to a different folder, I will create problems that I am unable to fix.

I will have more questions as I try to figure out Drupal while doing this site, and I very much appreciate people's willingness to chime in.

Ray Campbell
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lilywhite’s picture

lilywhite commented

You'd have to change the config file. Once you did that, I *think* everything would work fine.

BobT-1’s picture

BobT-1 commented

I initially installed drupal to a drupal folder and had problems. When I searched for my solution - I was expecting variables such as $path_to_index() and $path_to_settings() in settings.php - I found that Drupal is happiest when installed to web root.

I know, not much help. Your best bet is to use either .htaccess or a web based control panel to configure your web server to point to ./drupal/index.php as the default. I'm not familiar with editing .htaccess, or I'd be more specific. Sorry.

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