moving CPG to root folder

[scrambled egg]

At present my CPG v1.4.12 install bridged with SMF v1.1.3 is at

www.fotobuffs.com/admu198/

So when someone logs in here, they are automatically redirected to

http://www.fotobuffs.com/forum/index.php?action=login

and I would like to move the CPG install to the root folder at

www.fotobuffs.com

without affecting the login or logout in an adverse manner.  So what needs to be done exactly to accomplish this?

thanks.

[Nibbler]

Disable the bridge, move the files, re-enable the bridge, update the site url in config.

[scrambled egg]

Hello from the Philippines,

Please click on the link below.  It is self-explanatory.  If you can do it for me for $15.00, please PM me.

http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=45634.0

thank you.

[Joachim Müller]

Merged your initial request (originally posted on the bridging board) and your paid help request.
What you're up to is dead easy. Should not be a problem. Why spend 15 bucks?

[scrambled egg]

Well, it may be dead easy to someone like you or Nibbler or Sami, etc., but not someone like me. In other words, if Nibbler says "move the files" but does not tell me which files to move, then I don't want to play a guessing game.  And the impression that I get from this board is that if I were to ask "which files", I would look stupid for even asking.  You remember that in one of my posts before I said that there was a button in my SMF forum that linked to an old installation of menalto's Gallery2 and needed help to fix that, and you replied and said "none of our business".  Well I guess that reply traumatized me and I now have to be extremely careful about what questions to ask.

I would love to do it myself, but not if the instructions given in replies are not detailed, since I cannot afford to screw things up and make it more difficult for whoever might help me achieve what I am trying to achieve. A programmer once told me - if you are not 100% sure about what you need to do, then don't do it, and ask someone else to do the job for you.

So instead of asking so many questions before I start on it myself, I thought I would just offer to pay someone to do it for me.

[Joachim Müller]

Just to answer you question which files to move: obviously ALL files that reside within your coppermine folder need to be moved to your webroot. To accomplish this, just use your FTP app, copy the entire content of your coppermine folder to a temporary folder on your local desktop PC (preserving the file and folder structure within the coppermine folder). Then go one level up in your folder structure of your FTP app (into the folder that represents the webroot of your site) and copy the entire content of your temporary folder on your local desktop PC (the one you used in the first step) into your webroot. That's the meaning of the word "move". This is in no way related to Coppermine, but a pretty basic thing to do when running a site of your own.
I already told you in a previous thread: if you rely on others to do very, very ordinary/basic things for you, you will never learn how things work and you will keep on messing basic things up. If this small task is all alien to you and stays confusing for you, you should review the entire idea to run and maintain a website of your own, as it only requires very basic skills to move files around by FTP - even my 10-year-old daughter can do that already. No offence, but instructions on how to use your FTP-app are none of our business neither. We're Coppermine experts, and we provide help for issues related to coppermine. It's not our mission to teach people basics of web site maintenance. Our target audience are people who already know those basics. If you don't know them already, use google to find help with those non-coppermine issues you have.
You're of course welcome to try to find freelancers to do your homework for you, but I suggest looking through the myriad of threads where people look for freelancers and the comparatively small number of threads that are actually being marked as "done" (in comparison to the threads that are marked as "closed"): your thread as well as your budget doesn't look very promising from a freelancer's perspective.

Going to http://www.fotobuffs.com/ shows that you appear to have accomplished what you were after. It would have been kind of you if you would have resolved this thread by replying to it accordingly. That's why Nibbler marked this thread accordingly as "done". Especially, as you're not experienced in maintaining your site and you have asked for (and recieved) free support, you could at least have reported this thread as "done".

Joachim

[scrambled egg]

Got it.  Thanks. The problem is SOLVED and DONE.