Install in directory - access via root

Hi,

I want to install vivvo in a directory under root and want the vivvo cms to be available from root, so they just visit the domain.com to see the site. I believe this can be done in 4.1.2 but I can't find anything on this, could someone please point me in the right direction, I lend me some glasses so I can see better

It's simple to do, but you will need to edit a couple of files. I'll presume for this example that your site's url is www.example.com and you want Vivvo to be installed in sub-folder named vivvo/

1. Install Vivvo in subfolder vivvo/
2. Go to that subfolder and open conf.php file in editor and find a line that reads
   
   PHP Code:

   define('VIVVO_URL', 'http://www.example.com/vivvo/'); 

   and change it to point to the webroot of your site:
   
   PHP Code:

   define('VIVVO_URL', 'http://www.example.com/'); 

3. Move .htaccess file from vivvo/ subfolder to webroot, open it in editor and add the following lines below "RewriteEngine On" line, and above the rest of RewriteRules:
   

   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/vivvo/
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ vivvo/$1 [L]

4. Create a new file index.php in the webroot of your site, and put this code in it:
   
   PHP Code:

   <?php 
     require 'vivvo/index.php'; 
?>
   make sure there is no spaces, new lines, etc. before <? or after ?> tags, as it will create php errors.
   
5. That should be it, when you point your browser to www.example.com, it will serve Vivvo pages from www.example.com/vivvo/
   

The problem with this setup is that your site will be accessible from both www.example.com, and www.example.com/vivvo, and that is not very good from SEO point of view. You can solve this with robots.txt file that will block search engines from indexing vivvo/ path, as it should be invisible for your users anyway. Create file named robots.txt in your webroot and add this text:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /vivvo/

Of course, substitute 'vivvo' with the actual name of subfolder where Vivvo is installed.

Excellent, thanks Ivanhoe