By niin007 on

not sure this is the forum to post this but I'm thinking that this may have been a result of installing in the wrong place or something I did during initial configuration.

my website url has . . . drupal/ . . . in it.

The homepage is located at domainname.com/drupal/node/1. How do i get rid of the "drupal/" so that typing in domainname.com/ brings one to the homepage which is at domainname.com/node/1

I've read a crapload of stuff trying to figure this out but being a noob, I probably read it and didn't recognize it.

appreciate any responses.

Brian

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benevolent001 commented

Hello Brian

Since you copied all your files in /drupal folder it is bound to come in your website address

You have few choices to do

1) If you have access in your website control panel make /drupal folder as home folder for your website OR
2) You can move your files to your domain home folder if you are just starting off OR
3) If you can use some Mod rewrite than it can be easy to get rid of this /drupal

Hope this helps

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niin007 commented

Thanx to benevolent001 for the reply,

I signed up with GoDaddy and used their Hosting Control Center (HCC) to install Drupal. It seems HCC creates and installs into the /drupal folder by default. That's how it got to where it is. I suppose if push comes to shove I will just grab everything in /drupal and move it into the parent directory which is just /.

The one that seems intriguing to me is your first suggestion. Does anyone here have any familiarity with how one might do that with the HCC? I'm going to go poke around there and try to figure out if it's possible, I'll even email GoDaddy support to inquire.

I've read some stuff on this site and others about editing the htaccess file but have not delved it into it in any detail yet. Hopefully won't have to go that route, probably go with your 2nd suggestion before I try that.

I had actually considered your second suggestion, but whilst researching this subject and running thru many an install video, I noticed that many of the sites had their drupal install in /drupal and yet their main URL brought them to the home page without having to use the /drupal in the URL.

Thought I'd pull out the main question asked in this missive:
Does anyone know if I can use the Hosting Control Panel in GoDaddy to make my /drupal folder my home folder as suggested by benevolent001 above?

Brian