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Hi,

I have set up EE in a subdir (exen) of my existing site http://www.example.com, so it is now in http://www.example.com/exen. It all works so well that I no longer want to maintain the html of my old site, but to have the existing EE installation replace the old site.

Is there a way to do this without moving the EE software from the subdir to the main dir?
(I tried the “Make the index template in this group your site’s home page?” option when making a new template group but that does not do this job.)

Would anyone know?
Thanks in advance,
Durk

Well, not really. If you have EE in a physical subdirectory, you must use that subdirectory in your URLs. The solution would be to move all of your files on level up, so to speak, and is really nothing to be afraid of. Having said that, if you insist, there’s probably something that could be done using mod_rewrite, but I advise against it.

OK thank you very much Imgar; I will give it a try.

Yep- I’d avoid mod_rewrite as well.  You should be able to just move up a copy of path.php and index.php- put those in the top level, edit the path.php so it still points correctly to your system folder (will be one more level down than it was)- then edit any paths in ‘Admin- System Prefs- General Config’ so that the path to your site is now mysite.com/ instead of mysite.com/exen/- and anywhere else you have paths such as weblog specific paths. 

Either way would work- just need to be sure you catch all your path references.

Thanks Robin, moving only path.php and index.php, and changing url settings worked perfectly. I have a gallery-based photobolg and I needed some experimenting, but did not give any problems.
Best regards,
Durk