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I built an EE site that will replace a Joomla installation (and the client is already ecstatic!).  I created the EE install in a subdirectory of the site so the Joomla site shows up as usual, but the client can access the EE site at “mysite/ee”.  Everything is working fine, so I am ready to make the site live.

My question: what is the best approach to doing this, meaning the minimal amount of changing paths in various files?  Can I just move the index.php from the subdirectory to the site root and update the system folder path in that file?

Tks

Roi

Hi Roi,

We do have some information about how to do this in our documentation.

Cheers

Greg

Hi Greg - yes, I had looked at that information, which is why I posted the question. :cheese:

In the end I decided to set up a trial situation on my development server and work it out there.  Since I imagine this is a pretty common situation, here is what I did:

Renamed the index.php and the images folder from the original site
Moved the new index.php and image folders from the sub directory to the root (I moved the images folder so I would not have to change all the references in my CSS)
Modified the index.php file reference to the System Folder
Modified the directory paths in my file uploads preferences (which point to sub directories in the images folder)
Finally, modified the path to my the site root in the CP

Et voila!

Hi, Roi. Thanks for posting your solution. Sounds like this would make a great EEWiki idea. 😊 Hint-hint.

Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.