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I've installed C5 in the root directory, however there are quite a few other folders in the root directory. These folders are for various other uses and cannot be moved. There's quite a few folders and it's kinda bulky.

I'd like to install concrete into the /concrete_cms folder, and run C5 when you accesshttp://mysite.com/

I moved the entire /concrete/ directory to to /concrete_cms/concrete/. Then I updated the .htacess file and site.php file to point to the new folder. Everything worked when I accessedhttp://mysite.com/concrete_cms....

Then I added another .htaccess file that should have redirectedhttp://mysite.com/ tohttp://mysite.com/concrete_cms,... but because there was no /index.php file, I got a 403 error.

I've looked at some other forums, but nothing seems to work. Has anyone else done this or have ideas about how to do it?
SkyBlueSofa
 
Mnkras replied on at Permalink Reply
Mnkras
what....

so you just moved the /concrete folder into a sub directory...? what exactly did you change
SkyBlueSofa replied on at Permalink Reply
SkyBlueSofa
I started with the standard folder structure:
/blocks
/concrete
/config
/etc..
/.htaccess
/index.php

Then I moved the entire concrete structure to a subfolder:
/concrete_cms
/concrete_cms/blocks
/concrete_cms/concrete
/concrete_cms/config
/concrete_cms/etc..
/concrete_cms/index.php

After this move, I added a new .htaccess file at the root level:
/concrete_cms
/concrete_cms/blocks
/concrete_cms/concrete
/concrete_cms/config
/concrete_cms/etc..
/concrete_cms/.htaccess
/concrete_cms/index.php
/.htaccess

Then I update the config/site.php with the following:
define('BASE_URL', 'http://mysite.com');
define('DIR_REL', '/concrete_cms');

The .htaccess file at the root level has the following code to point to the new subfolder if the requssted page does not exist:
# -- concrete5 urls start --
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ concrete_cms/index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# -- concrete5 urls end --

And the .htaccess file under 'concrete_cms' looks like this:
# -- concrete5 urls start --
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /concrete_cms/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# -- concrete5 urls end --


This is the experience that I have:
* When I go to the root level of the site (mysite.com/), I get a 403 error.
* When I go to an existing page, 'About' at mysite.com/about, I get the site, but no images in the content. Images in the theme are okay.
* When I navigate from the 'About' page, the url now has 'concrete_cms' in it; eg: mysite.com/concrete_cms/blog
* When I go to mysite.com/concrete_cms, I get the home page without images in the content, but the images in the theme are okay

What I would like to happen:
* Access the root level of the site (mysite.com/) and get the home page
* Access the site with images in the content
* Access the site without the 'concrete_cms' folder showing in the URL
* Be able to go to mysite.com/someOldFolder and access the functionality within that folder. These folders need to be there for historical reasons.

I *can* keep the concrete structure at the root level, but I'd just like to clean it up a bit, if at all possible.

Are the .htaccess files incorrect? Is there something else I'm missing?
jincmd replied on at Permalink Reply
jincmd
have u figured this out?
DTriplett replied on at Permalink Reply
Try these instructions to use a modified index.php instead:
Install to a Subdirectory, Run from root (without patches or .htaccess)
http://www.concrete5.org/?cID=612245...
MortQ replied on at Permalink Reply
Does anyone know if there is a working link to this solution?http://www.concrete5.org/?cID=612245......
It keeps coming up in searches and in different threads, but this link appears to be dead, just seems to go to a log in page, and logging in does nothing.