Transferring from \catalog to root

[di11on]

Hi all,

 

I'm transferring an OSCommerce shop to another hosting provider and am thinkng of taking the opportunity to move it from the catalog folder to the root folder - i.e. so my shop can be accessed at www.vintagevibrations.com rather than www.vintagevibrations.com/catalog.

 

I'm comfortable with what I need to do re the confugration files etc. but what about the Google index? If I move the location of my shop, surely all google links will point to a location that no longer exists?

 

How will I create redirects for every product to the new location?

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance

[spooks]

I`m pretty sure you could set up your htacccess to rewrite urls with that directory to remove it.

[di11on]

I`m pretty sure you could set up your htacccess to rewrite urls with that directory to remove it.

 

Thanks Sam - that sounds like it would do what I want... what would the required .htaccess entries look like (bearing in mind that I have SEO URLs installed)?

 

Many thanks

[di11on]

What code do I need in my .htaccess file to do this?

 

Thanks

[spooks]

The code is out there, you just have to find it.

 

This is a good resource http://corz.org/serv/tricks/