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[ShopinHK]

1) go to top.inc.php and change this

define ('DIR_CUSTOMER', '');


2) Copy everything from the customer directory to your root directory

[keavy]

Originally Posted by jordan0

I changed the line in my index.php from:

header("Location: index.html");

to

header("Location: customer/home.php");

and that just goes straight to my catalog page with no redirect when the site is loaded. I have no index.html of course.

i have no idea if this is bad for search engine ranking or what. my site is not completely "live" yet, although we are filling orders. I am curious to hear about whether or not this is a good idea.

that's what I did too - seems to be a nice and simple solution to avoid the splash page.

I was going to try the above suggestion - but for some reason couldn't spot where the top.inc.php file lived on the server My site isn't live yet, so not sure if the address being /store/customer/home.php bothers me much yet. I guess it would be nicer to just be /store/home.php

[lyncca]

I'm doing the above now too. The only problem is that our google ranking of 6, went slowly back down to 0 and then had to work its way back up again. We are happily back to a 6 again but it took 6 weeks or so.

[KiDD]

Originally Posted by leon

If you possibly try out the .htaccess version, please let us know if it actually works, since I will probably need it on my next Xcart (sounds like I need a guinea pig he, he).

I used the .htaccess method myself.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
options followsymlinks


was all it took and i deleted the index.html file and now it just loads the index.php as if it were index.htm.

Hope this helps,

KiDD

[successful]

Currently we use a java redirect for our site http://123Language.com . We want all visitors to our site to go to the index.html page in the catalog directory. We still (after all this time) have not found a solution on how to get this working correctly with a zero redirect. I copied the index page from the catalog directory and moved it into the root web directory but I'm getting some odd errors from my browser. I renamed the index page to test. You can test it out at http://123language.com/test.html . If any of you know what's causing this error......

[Chris B]

Hi,

Using version 3.5.6. I moved the customer folder contents into the root folder and everything appears to work fine except the secure login still points to the /customer/ folder.

Any Ideas on a fix?

Thanks,
Chris

[successful]

Originally Posted by Chris B

Hi,

Using version 3.5.6. I moved the customer folder contents into the root folder and everything appears to work fine except the secure login still points to the /customer/ folder.

Any Ideas on a fix?

Thanks,
Chris

Chris,

How did you move that folder ?

[Chris B]

I just moved the contents... Is there a config file change which has to be made?

I didn't do it during the original install...

Thanks,
Chris

[adpboss]

Originally Posted by jordan0

I changed the line in my index.php from:

header("Location: index.html");

to

header("Location: customer/home.php");

and that just goes straight to my catalog page with no redirect when the site is loaded. I have no index.html of course.

i have no idea if this is bad for search engine ranking or what. my site is not completely "live" yet, although we are filling orders. I am curious to hear about whether or not this is a good idea.

Will this work if I change the header location to

header("Location: catalog/index.html");

For my latest project I want people in the html catalog whenever possible. This store will rarely need catalog updates or regens.

UPDATED: IT DOES WORK!! WOOHOO!

[Juliann]

Originally Posted by successful

Chris,

How did you move that folder ?

I did the same thing that Chris did- altho I did have to make a copy of my top.inc.php file and place that at the root directory as well. Everything works & looks great until one logs in.

I am having problems when logged in as eveything is still pointing back to install/customer instead of my root directory. Any ideas on what to do to fix that?

Changing the customer directory in top.inc.php doesn't seem to work. What is the syntax for it to point to root?

I tried-
define ('DIR_CUSTOMER', '');
and that didn't fix it!

Any help would be really appreciated
-Juliann