Moving the site among directories/sub-directories - Revision history

Sovainfo: Condensed the code

2013-01-24T22:10:04Z

Condensed the code

Sovainfo: Applies to J1.5 and higher!

2013-01-24T21:36:12Z

Applies to J1.5 and higher!

JoomlaWikiBot: clean up categories with tags

2012-09-01T21:12:21Z

clean up categories with <noinclude> tags

Imanickam at 09:47, 13 November 2011

2011-11-13T09:47:13Z

Imanickam at 09:46, 13 November 2011

2011-11-13T09:46:47Z

Cmb: Punctuation corrections

2010-11-23T23:24:27Z

Punctuation corrections

Mvangeest: Changed notice into notice template. Also, if the user is still using version 1.0, he might have his reasons; this article is not meant to convince him to migrate.

2010-05-17T17:54:10Z

Changed notice into notice template. Also, if the user is still using version 1.0, he might have his reasons; this article is not meant to convince him to migrate.

Mandville: added cats

2010-02-22T16:43:26Z

added cats

Ashwin: New page: Many times you install Joomla in a sub-directory and then want to move it to a higher level directory, here's a short tutorial on how to do it. Note that this is written for Joomla 1.5, in...

2009-05-04T18:46:41Z

New page: Many times you install Joomla in a sub-directory and then want to move it to a higher level directory, here's a short tutorial on how to do it. Note that this is written for Joomla 1.5, in...

New page

Many times you install Joomla in a sub-directory and then want to move it to a higher level directory, here's a short tutorial on how to do it. Note that this is written for Joomla 1.5, in case you are still using Joomla 1.0, migrate now!

Say you have installed Joomla in the following folder
public_html/tryjoomla
Now that you are satisfied with the site, you'll want to move to public_html

1. Move all the files from the sub-directory to the upper level directory, you can use your favourite FTP client or the panel that your hosting service provides to do this.

2. Download and open the configuration.php file in a text editor.

3. Look for the following variables
<source lang="php">
var $log_path
var $tmp_path
var $ftp_root
var $live_site
</source>
The first two will definitely have a long value, the other two might not. The first line will most probably look something similar to
<source lang="php">
var $log_path = '/home/username/public_html/tryjoomla/logs';
</source>
You need to change this to
<source lang="php">
var $log_path = '/home/username/public_html/logs';
</source>
We've simply removed the tryjoomla folder name from the path. Similarly change the tmp path
<source lang="php">
var $tmp_path = '/home/username/public_html/tmp';
</source>

----

If you have the $live_site and $ftp_root variables with some values, they too need to give up the tryjoomla folder, so they can look something like
<source lang="php">
var $live_site = 'http://www.yoursite.com/tryjoomla';
</source>
becomes
<source lang="php">
var $live_site = 'http://www.yoursite.com';
</source>

AND

<source lang="php">
var $ftp_root = 'public_html/tryjoomla';
</source>
becomes
<source lang="php">
var $ftp_root = 'public_html';
</source>

----

If you have cache enabled, you will need to login to the administrator (Which will now be at http://www.yoursite.com/administrator and not http://www.yoursite.com/tryjoomla/administrator), and go to Tools -> Clean Cache and delete all cache files.

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−	~~{{Notice\|Please note that this item applies to Joomla version {{JVer\|1.5}} only.}}~~
	Many times you install Joomla in a sub-directory and then want to move it to a higher level directory, here's a short tutorial on how to do it.		Many times you install Joomla in a sub-directory and then want to move it to a higher level directory, here's a short tutorial on how to do it.

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 If you have cache enabled, login to the administrator backend (which will now be at http://www.yoursite.com/administrator and not http://www.yoursite.com/tryjoomla/administrator). Go to Tools -> Clean Cache and delete all cache files.
-[[Category:FAQ]]
+<noinclude>[[Category:FAQ]]
 [[Category:Administration FAQ]]
 [[Category:Installation FAQ]]
-[[Category:Version 1.5 FAQ]]
+[[Category:Version 1.5 FAQ]]</noinclude>

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 Now that you are satisfied with the site, you'll want to move to public_html.
-. Move all the files from the sub-directory (i.e., public_/tryjoomla) to the upper level directory (i.e., public_html). You can use your favourite FTP client or the control panel that your hosting service provides.
+. Move all the files from the sub-directory (i.e., public_html/tryjoomla) to the upper level directory (i.e., public_html). You can use your favourite FTP client or the control panel that your hosting service provides.
 . Download and open the configuration.php file in a text editor.

@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 Now that you are satisfied with the site, you'll want to move to public_html.
-. Move all the files from the sub-directory to the upper level directory. You can use your favourite FTP client or the control panel that your hosting service provides.
+. Move all the files from the sub-directory (i.e., public_/tryjoomla) to the upper level directory (i.e., public_html). You can use your favourite FTP client or the control panel that your hosting service provides.
 . Download and open the configuration.php file in a text editor.

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-Many times you install Joomla in a sub-directory and then want to move it to a higher level directory, here's a short tutorial on how to do it. Note that this is written for Joomla 1.5, in case you are still using Joomla 1.0, migrate now!
+{{Notice|Please note that this item applies to Joomla version {{JVer|1.5}} only.}}
 Say you have installed Joomla in the following folder
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 ----
-If you have cache enabled, you will need to login to the administrator (Which will now be at http://www.yoursite.com/administrator and not http://www.yoursite.com/tryjoomla/administrator), and go to Tools -> Clean Cache and delete all cache files.
+If you have cache enabled, you will need to login to the Control Panel (Which will now be at http://www.yoursite.com/administrator and not http://www.yoursite.com/tryjoomla/administrator), and go to Tools -> Clean Cache and delete all cache files.

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 . Download and open the configuration.php file in a text editor.
-. Look for the following variables
+. Simply remove the tryjoomla folder name from the path. Look for the following lines
-<source lang="php">
-var $log_path
-var $tmp_path
-var $ftp_root
-var $live_site
-</source>
-The first two will definitely have a long value; the other two might not. The first line will look similar to
 <source lang="php">
 var $log_path = '/home/username/public_html/tryjoomla/logs';
 </source>
-Change this to
 <source lang="php">
 var $log_path = '/home/username/public_html/logs';
 var $tmp_path = '/home/username/public_html/tmp';
 var $ftp_root = 'public_html';
 </source>
-----
+. Check your .htaccess. The subfolder should be removed there as well.
 If you have cache enabled, login to the administrator backend (which will now be at http://www.yoursite.com/administrator and not http://www.yoursite.com/tryjoomla/administrator). Go to Tools -> Clean Cache and delete all cache files.
 <noinclude>[[Category:FAQ]]
 [[Category:Administration FAQ]]
 [[Category:Installation FAQ]]
 [[Category:Version 1.5 FAQ]]</noinclude>

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	If you have cache enabled, you will need to login to the administrator (Which will now be at http://www.yoursite.com/administrator and not http://www.yoursite.com/tryjoomla/administrator), and go to Tools -> Clean Cache and delete all cache files.		If you have cache enabled, you will need to login to the administrator (Which will now be at http://www.yoursite.com/administrator and not http://www.yoursite.com/tryjoomla/administrator), and go to Tools -> Clean Cache and delete all cache files.
		+
		+
		+	[[Category:FAQ]]
		+	[[Category:Administration FAQ]]
		+	[[Category:Installation FAQ]]
		+	[[Category:Version 1.5 FAQ]]