[support] Change to home page location

[Halter, Shari]

I have a site, call it mysite.com.  

My site lives in the following directory on a Debian linux server:
/export/devhome/mysite.com/htdocs.  Drupal was installed here.  It ran fine.

Administration deemed, after the site was in place, that site home page
needed to be changed to http://mysite.com/home <http://mysite.com/home> ,
rather than http://mysite.com <http://mysite.com> .  (The URL MUST appear
exactly this way)  So I made a directory, /home, under htdocs.  [I've been
told by our sysadmin that Apache mod_rewrite, symbolic linking and other
server redirect methods wouldn't work].

My home page would initially not run here (complained first about includes,
then modules) so I had to make a separate copy of mostly everything
(includes, modules, misc, etc. everything except for database) in htdocs and
duplicate it in /home.  It now works fine, from both locations.  

The $base_url was left, in sites/mysite.com/settings.php, as
http://mysite.com <http://mysite.com> .

Questions/issues:

1.  Is it really necessary to have those Drupal files in both locations
(htdocs and htdocs/home)?

2.  My "Administer" -> "Settings" page in Drupal is complaining that it no
longer has access or permissions in the /file directory, despite my having
used chmod 755 . to adjust permissions on the directory and the files
within.

Thanks,
Shari




Shari L. Halter
Web Programmer, Corporate Services
Thornton Tomasetti
51 Madison Avenue
New York, NY  10010
T 917.661.7800  F 917.661.7801  
D 917.661.7970  
SHalter at ThorntonTomasetti.com



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