Many web designers prefer to build their websites in test
folders and when their development is over to move their Joomla
applications to the root folder of their hosting accounts.
For the purpose of this article let us presume that we have a Joomla 1.5
installed in the public_html/test folder in
our account and we want to move it to the public_html directory
so that it will be directly accessible through www.yourdomain.com.
This change consists of the following steps:
1. Move all of the files and folders from your Joomla folder to the new
directory. In our case from public_html/test to public_html
2. Reconfigure your application. You should edit your configuration.php
file and make the following changes in it:
Change: var $log_path = '/home/user/public_html/test/logs';
To: var $log_path = '/home/user/public_html/logs';
Change: var $tmp_path = '/home/user/public_html/test/tmp';
To: var $tmp_path = '/home/user/public_html/tmp';
Change: var $ftp_root = '/public_html/test';
To: var $ftp_root = '/public_html';
Change: var $live_site = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/test';
To: var $live_site = 'http://www.yourdomain.com';
3. Remove the content of your cache folder (public_html/cache
in our case)
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