We have our very first SilverStripe site, installed and pretty much ready to go live.

We decided we want everything at the root level in order to make nicer URLs -- mysite.com/contact vs. mysite.com/silverstripe/contact/

Can we just take the contents of the /silverstripe/ directory and pop them up to root? What files will we need to change? Will it mess up our access to other directories that live at root?

I couldn't find definite information elsewhere, and all the installation instructions specified using /silverstripe/ as the
installation directory.

Thanks in advance.

Hi ewilliams,

The control for how silverstripe is presented is managed via the .htaccess.

There is a line in the .htaccess that reads;

RewriteBase /silverstripe

This means that all requests that make it to main.php will be rewritten as

http://example.com/silverstripe

So basically, to be able to have Silverstripe answer on "/" you make the RewriteBase "/".

If you are sharing the webservers root folder with other things, you may need to put in a line to exclude certain paths from rewriting.

For example, if you have phpbb installed, you would put a line as follows, to exlude that directory from being included in the main rewrite rules;

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}!^/phpbb/

Hope that helps

Cheers
Owen

This line will come before the first RewriteConf in the .htaccess.

Hi,

I 've moved my site to the root folder. The site works fine, just I can't locked me in. If I try it, I redirected to the "Not Found" page.

Any ideas?

Mike