Removing Catalog

liebgott · October 19, 2006

I know this is an easy question but, is there anyway to take away the catalog in your url? I just want people to type in www.youraddress.com and have it open my store. This is probally the last thing I want to do before going live.

Thanks,

TJ

Druid6900 · October 19, 2006

I know this is an easy question but, is there anyway to take away the catalog in your url? I just want people to type in www.youraddress.com and have it open my store. This is probally the last thing I want to do before going live.

Thanks,

TJ

This should do it. Just drop it in the root as index.htm and change "yourstore" to, well, your store

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0; URL=http://www.yourstore.com/catalog">
<title> </title>
</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

♥Monika in Germany · October 19, 2006

I suggest you copy your files over to root (everything you have right now in catalog), rename catalog and later delete it, and modify both configure.php files to reflect the new path. Redirecting may hurt your SEO, and why would you want to have a longer URL for your customers to have in their browsers?

Druid6900 · October 19, 2006

I suggest you copy your files over to root (everything you have right now in catalog), rename catalog and later delete it, and modify both configure.php files to reflect the new path. Redirecting may hurt your SEO, and why would you want to have a longer URL for your customers to have in their browsers?

Well, Monica, if you plug your metatags and description into the index.htm in the root, the SEs will find them with no problem if you target that particular file to them.

I've done it for dozens of sites that I've designed that have non-root starting points and the SEs find them every time.

♥Monika in Germany · October 19, 2006

Richard, "well Monica's" name is MONIKA ,.... and you are of course entitled to your opinion - please stay polite though.

Druid6900 · October 19, 2006

Richard, "well Monica's" name is MONIKA ,.... and you are of course entitled to your opinion - please stay polite though.

Monika,

No disrespent intended ob either count.

The "well" was not intended in the condesending tone, but, rather, in the "collecting one's thoughts" tone.

As for the c/k thing, that's being caused by replying to posts wilst, simaultaneously, trying to find some help on getting 4 contributions to play nicely together with very little luck.

I have been taught to be always respectful of people or say nothing at all.

Again, no offense intended

Richard

♥Monika in Germany · October 19, 2006

apology accepted ...

Druid6900 · October 20, 2006

apology accepted ...

That's great then, now we're best buddies and the Quode Queen can help the Jack of Hardware out with these nasty old coding problems, right :D

You know, "hands across the ocean" and all that crap LOL

liebgott · October 20, 2006

Thanks for the support. Monika you've been nothing but helpful since I started this. I'm so close to being done and my web exp. is limited so I'm just going to use the .htm version instead of possiblly screwing up my code and directeries. Also didn't mean to turn this post into a battle ground you two!!!!

Thanks again,

TJ

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