Include paths

[matbennett]

I'm not even sure if this is possible, but it seems that there should be a logical way to do this.

I have a fairly complex page (store front) installed at mydomain.com/shop which ideally should be the front page to my site.

At the moment, mydomain.com/index.php contains nothing but a header redirect to point people straight into the store front. On most fronts this works fine, but it does effect the page rank of the first content page (as it is in a subdirectory).

Ideally, I would like to change /index.php to include /shop/index.php . The problem is that /shop/index.php has a lot of includes itself that will fail if I do this.

My questions

Is there anyway to change the basepath used for referencing includes without rewriting the path for every include in the site? Ideally I would like to be able to include /shop/index.php and have all files in that referenced from /shop/ rather than from webroot.

Am I making any sense?

[drawmack]

why don't you just change the server settings to load /shop/index.php instead of index.php?

[matbennett]

Originally posted by drawmack
why don't you just change the server settings to load /shop/index.php instead of index.php?

Because I don't know how 😉

OK, less flippantly this sound like a good solution. The server hosts several sites (it's a cobalt RAQ4), so I need to be a bit careful. Any chance of a pointer to what I should be looking at?

[drawmack]

It would probably be a configuration of the web server itself. You'd do a lot better to find a site that is deadicated to your web server software and ask there.