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Matt-P

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You can either move Wordpress to the root of the site (which would be easiest), or, you can set it up so all the folders stay in the /wordpress directory, and just the wordpress index page moves to the root of the file.

Info on the above is: here

OR you could redirect the whole site using htaccess I guess :shrug:
 
what ever domain u buy it links to index.html file, so when someone types it or clicks a link it goes to index.html
thats really the page where your layout needs to be so gallery would be a link from there......when someone clicks gallery it would go to the gallery what u linked to........ie what ever u call it
so u need to make a page called for example landscapegallery.htm which it your wordpress gallery, (make a new page that loads the wordpress stuff and call it landscapegallery.htm) the link would them be www.mattperrinsphotography.com/landscapegallery.htm

Gary
 
Matt-P said:
How do I make it such that a vistor landing at www.mpp.com actually gets www.mpp.com/wordpress and so sees the gallery?
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Edit /etc/apache/httpd.conf (or /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/sitename ) and restart apache/apache2 (usually something like /etc/init.d/apache restart ). You will need to telnet / ssh into the server as root to do these things.

I haven't got putty on the laptop so can't log in to check the exact syntax required in the VirtualHost section of the configuration file, I don't carry the entire documentation around in my head :lol:. www.apache.org will have it though.

Note, if you are using IIS then no idea, sorry. I wont expose ports on a machine running a Microsoft operating system to the internet to accept server connections.

edit - if you don't understand any of the above, do not attempt it. It is possible to do untold damage while logged in as root if you don't know what you are doing.
 
mattyh said:
^^ That seems like a bit of overkill for what he wants to do, tbh. Plus, unless he's got a VPS or above, it's unlikely he'll be able to edit the httpd.conf file anyway, or, indeed, restart Apache.
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Possibly. I don't do shared hosting though, or anything where I can't log in as root. Can't have your own certificate to start with, since https doesn't support name based virtual hosting.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. Already running the whole thing from the root directory but got a bit hard now trying different installations. Going to try the wordpress link and htaccess approach first. Cheers. Matt
 
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