Displaying another folder as if in public_html

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Posted by ZachA, 01-12-2008, 11:15 PM
I have 2 web scripts I need to run for my site. One of them NEEDS to be in the public_html folder because it is a script that creates forums, and needs to make yourrforumname.mydomain.com and it NEEDS to be in the main directory. I also want to run my other CMS (Joomla) as the frontpage and website and I will just be wrapping things that I want from my forum hosting script into joomla pages (like registration etc...). Joomla can be in another folder, if they both are in the same folder the 2 web scripts will conflict folders and files. I want it so that when you go to www.mydomain.com it is my joomla page, however I don't want to do a re-direct to www.mydomain.com/joomla. I want all files and folders for joomla to appear as www.mydomain.com/index.php www.mydomain.com/images/whatever If it re-directs to www.mydomain.com/joomla it'd be really un-professional and not good for SEO. This site needs to be popular to keep driving it, so I really want to do anything I can to make the joomla page appear as "the main website". If you think I can run the site running the frontpage out of another folder or subdomain and just re-direct there and it will still be SEO friendly then please let me know this, and advise me to. If you have any solutions or advise please reply. Im using CentOS4 on a VPS with whm/cpanel. I have full root access. Last edited by ZachA; 01-12-2008 at 11:27 PM.
Posted by psyxakias, 01-13-2008, 03:32 AM
I would check if the 2 web scripts have any configuration to custom set paths or even if they don't, check their code (assuming they're open-source) and make some modifications (adding some "../" where needed) to make them function within a public_html's sub-directory. That would be the most appropriate solution in my opinion, to avoid any further trouble with redirect tricks. If anyone has any alternative suggestion, feel free to share.