Change the main domain folder

[hectorix]

Hi,
What is the easiest way to change the default folder of my main domain?
I want to run 3 websites on my host in this way:

public_html/1site/content here (main domain)
public_html/2site/content here
public_html/3site/content here

Nice, isnt it?



Now i have something like that:

public_html/content here (main domain)
public_html/2site/content here
public_html/3site/content here

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by hectorix

Hi,
What is the easiest way to change the default folder of my main domain?
I want to run 3 websites on my host in this way:

public_html/1site/content here (main domain)
public_html/2site/content here
public_html/3site/content here

Nice, isnt it?



Now i have something like that:

public_html/content here (main domain)
public_html/2site/content here
public_html/3site/content here

Contact support and ask them to change your document root to the subfolder you wish for your main domain.

[hectorix]

I found this solution:

The main domain on the hosting account uses the public_html folder for all of its Web site files. Any addon domains use subfolders inside the public_html folder. In order to also set up your main domain to use a subfolder on your hosting account you will need to set up a redirect in the .htaccess file in the public_html folder so that the server knows that any request for your main domain will be redirected to a subfolder on public_html.

Visitors to your Web site will not be able to tell that your main domain is using a subfolder, they will still see the Web site address as http://www.yourdomain.com/page.html

# Hostmonster.com
# .htaccess main domain to subfolder redirect
# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.


# Do not change this line.

RewriteEngine on


# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$


# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfolder/

# Don't change this line.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subfolder/$1

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ subfolder/index.php [L]

[scooter1]

Thank you Hectorix, this worked perfectly!

[Spaddiction]

I'm doing the same thing, but this doesn't seem to be working for me.

My primary domain is: spaddiction.ca
I want the files for this domain to be in the /public_html/spaddiction.ca/ folder instead of just in the /public_html/ folder.

Here is what I have in my .htaccess:

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName spaddiction.ca
AuthUserFile /home/[edited out]/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/[edited out]/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp


# .htaccess main domain to subfolder redirect
# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.


# Do not change this line.

RewriteEngine on


# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?spaddiction.ca$


# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/spaddiction.ca/

# Don't change this line.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /spaddiction.ca/$1

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?spaddiction.ca$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ spaddiction.ca/index.htm [L]

This works for the index.htm file, but none of the other htm files and none of the images.

Any idea why?

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