Forum In Subdirectory, How To Hide It From Users?

[vellocet]

I installed my forum into a subdirectory, because it came out of the box that way. If I had known better, I would have installed it directly into public_html but it's too late now.

 

I want to completely hide the subdirectory from users (using .htaccess in public_html), because (a) I don't want anyone to know which forum I'm using, ( the forum has a really dumb name that I want to hide, and © it just looks better.

 

I know I've done this before with other websites, but I can't find the magical code snippet after searching for over an hour. The best I've found so far has been this:

 

>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subdir/
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/subdir/$1 [L]

This works...halfway. It redirects the front page to /subdir, but any links from the front page have /subdir in them. No good. I want /subdir to disappear completely from all URLs.

 

I also tried:

>DocumentRoot /subdir

but I just get 500 internal server error, "/home/username/public_html/.htaccess: DocumentRoot not allowed here"

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, vellocet.

 

If you go in to your cpanel and click the "Backup wizard", you could download a compressed file of your "Home directory".

 

Then on your local computer, decompress it using winzip etc.

 

After that, ftp all files and folders under the sub directory to the new location "public_hrml".

 

If the forum software needs changes in a config.php etc to know where the forum files are, don´t forget to change those lines in it.

 

This procedure is a bit time consuming, but when done, visitors will only see example.net instead of example.net/folder name.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forum, vellocet