Directory Change

Hey guys – Hate to be a bother, but I was wondering about changing the directory name for joomla in BitNami.

I started doing the normal dir. change process (i.e. changing the …/joomla/ to …/xxxx/) and I ran into some problems.

I was just wondering if there is anything I should look out for that’s different in BitNami?

BitNami windows beta version (joomla 1.5RC3) on windows 2003 server.

Hi chaking,

To make it work, you have to change a couple of configuration files (apache2/conf/httpd.conf , apps/joomla/conf/joomla.conf), plus the initial Bitnami website (apache2/htdocs/index.html). Why do you want to change the folder name?

Cheers

Thanks antonio –
I’d rather not have my site located at ”.../joomla/” ... I think it looks better and makes more sense to have the address be something like /myname/ or /sweetasswebsitename/ ... you get the idea…

thanks again!

Okay, then I think you only have to change the first two lines in the file C:\Path\To\Installation\apps\joomla\conf\joomla.conf, not the folder name.

They look like:

Alias /joomla/ ”/Path/To/Installation/apps/joomla/htdocs/”
Alias /joomla/ ”/Path/To/Installation/apps/joomla/htdocs/”

You just can change them to somethink like:

Alias /mywebsite/ ”/Path/To/Installation/apps/joomla/htdocs/”
Alias /mywebsite ”/Path/To/Installation/apps/joomla/htdocs/”

Apart from that, if you want the main static page (the one with the BitNami intro) links to work , you also have to change the file C:\Path\To\Installation\apache2\htdocs\index.html

Substitute every

<a href=”joomla/”>

to

<a href=”mywebsite/”>

Now your site will be located at

http://localhost/mywebsite

Cheers