etzeppy Posted March 14, 2007 Posted March 14, 2007 My ISP provides an installation of OSC but they won't let you install it in the root directory. I selected /store as the install location which gave me an OSC root of www.mysite.com/store/catalog/ Not knowing where I was headed with OSC, I stuck with the default location and got to work. Once I got my site functioning as intended, I decided to implement a sub-domain that points to my OSC directory. My store now shows up as catalog.mysite.com. When I went live, I setup a redirector that points requests for www.mysite.com to catalog.mysite.com. This approach seemed to work great but now I'm wondering if this will have a negative impact on search engine ranking. Other sites that link to me all point to www.mysite.com which in turn is redirected to catalog.mysite.com. None of the external links actually point to catalog.mysite.com. Is this a big deal? Is there a better way to do it?
Jack_mcs Posted March 14, 2007 Posted March 14, 2007 It could be. In the least it is a big mess. If you don't want to switch hosts, which you should if they won't allow you to have your site in the root, you should at least move the shop from the catalog directory to the store directory. Then the url for the shop would be www.mysite.com/store. Jack Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons
etzeppy Posted March 15, 2007 Author Posted March 15, 2007 It could be. In the least it is a big mess. If you don't want to switch hosts, which you should if they won't allow you to have your site in the root, you should at least move the shop from the catalog directory to the store directory. Then the url for the shop would be www.mysite.com/store. Jack I guess I shouldn't have said that my ISP won't let me install in the root. It's that their OSC installer wouldn't let me. I'm sure I could manually move everything back to the root if I can figure out how to do that without breaking something. I initally liked the catalog.mysite.com setup but wasn't thinking about the possible impact with search engines.
Guest Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 If your host uses cPanel, then the fantastico osc installer will allow you to leave the directory field blank to install at root.
Jack_mcs Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 I guess I shouldn't have said that my ISP won't let me install in the root. It's that their OSC installer wouldn't let me. I'm sure I could manually move everything back to the root if I can figure out how to do that without breaking something. I initally liked the catalog.mysite.com setup but wasn't thinking about the possible impact with search engines.It is not a difficult change. First, copy all files and directories from the shops directory into the root. Then change the two configure files so that the references to that sub-driectory are removed. You may also have to remove whatever redirection code is being used to cause your current shop to load. It should be working at that point. Jack Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons
etzeppy Posted March 16, 2007 Author Posted March 16, 2007 It is not a difficult change. First, copy all files and directories from the shops directory into the root. Then change the two configure files so that the references to that sub-driectory are removed. You may also have to remove whatever redirection code is being used to cause your current shop to load. It should be working at that point. Jack It was my bad for not looking at the relocation option first. I had assumed it was dificult so I used the sub-domain. I think I'll move everything to the root and put a 301 redirect in old the /store/catalog/ directory (root for the sub-domain) to handle the small amount of indexing that has taken place there. That does bring up a redirection question. My old static site used html pages only. My main page was index.html for years. Is it safe to remove the old html files and let index.php take over or do I need to setup a redirect from index.htm to index.php? Thanks everyone for the input on this. I'll eventually learn enough to be dangerous.
Jack_mcs Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 Yes, it is safe. Will it cause a drop in your index listings, most likely. But that will recover quickly enough. The redirect is probably a good idea but make sure it is a 301. Jack Support Links: For Hire: Contact me for anything you need help with for your shop: upgrading, hosting, repairs, code written, etc. All of My Addons Get the latest versions of my addons Recommended SEO Addons
etzeppy Posted March 17, 2007 Author Posted March 17, 2007 Yes, it is safe. Will it cause a drop in your index listings, most likely. But that will recover quickly enough. The redirect is probably a good idea but make sure it is a 301. Jack Moved last night with no issues. Thanks for all of the help...again!
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