Moving coppermine to top level folder

[japhar]

I have my site hosted on Godaddy and used their mechanism to install coppermine, and everything works great (awesome software, btw). I only plan to run coppermine on this site, how can I get it have coppermine run on the top level instead of running off the "/coppermine" folder?

in other words, when people go to mywebsite.com, it takes them straight to coppermine, as opposed to writing some script that takes them to mywebsite.com/coppermine (I know how to do that, but I'd rather everything rest in the main folder).

I suppose I could move everything from the coppermind folder right into the top folder, but thats kinda messy, and I like how its all just in one main folder, any ideas?

thanks in advance 

[Tranz]

I don't understand... you want to move coppermine to the top level but you don't want to move the coppermine folder contents to the top folder because it's "kinda messy"? Could you please clarify what you want?

[japhar]

Sorry for the confusion. in my root folder I have the "coppermine" folder, but I also have other folders such "stats","cgi", etc, and a few files in the root. I'm guessing the only way to get coppermine to run under the root is by copying everything inside the "coppermine" folder into the root, which means having about 8 additional folders in the root, and around 20 files. Thats kinda messy, especially if I want to remove coppermine in the future.

Right now, coppermine only runs at: mywebsite.com/coppermine, which means I have to use a redirect script when people type "mywebsite.com" in their browsers. Ideally I want no redirection. I'm wondering how other people have done a standalone coppermine site without having to redirect.

[Tranz]

Well... the way I have mine is that my gallery is an addon domain which points to a specific folder in my primary domain. But I don't know if you want to get an additional domain.

You can also set up your gallery as a subdomain... like gallery.yourwebsite.com

[japhar]

You can also set up your gallery as a subdomain... like gallery.yourwebsite.com

Yeah, I thought of that, but I don't like the subdomain idea. I'd like to have the root just simply point to the folder, but I don't see that option anywhere in godaddy's control panel. That'll teach me to host my own sites

I guess the only solution is to move everything that is inside the coppermine folder straight into the root folder. Will that even work?

[Joachim Müller]

I guess the only solution is to move everything that is inside the coppermine folder straight into the root folder. Will that even work?

yes, that's the only option you have if you don't want redirection nor subdomain. The coppermine sub-folders won't hurt

[Stramm]

or tell your webhost to make the coppermine folder your root folder.. something like that
DocumentRoot "/usr/your/absolute/path/to/your/htdocs/coppermine"