Moving installed shopping cart up one level on sever

[glutenFreeGoodies +]

I installed my shopping cart at public_html/store. So, now if I type in my domain name it won't find my cart. I have also customized and loaded all my data to the cart. Is there a way I can move the cart up one level so it is just sitting at public_html? Thank you for any help you can give.

[joepc +]

Yes but it will require you to export your mysql database do a find and replace for public_html/store/ to public_html/

Coping all the files in public_html/store to public_html/

Then importing the database back in - Do you have root access to your hosting or are you using shared hosting?

[tonybarnes +]

Why does the database need to move? It's accessed via FTP - so long as the settings stay the same, it will point at the same database.

I had our cart running a database on a different server when we were migrating (i.e. cart on old server looking at database on new server to prevent data loss during propogation), worked fine.

With regards to the problem, can't you just change the store path in the settings and it will automatically do the right thing? i.e. just remove the /store. You may need to put in a redirect for your index so that everything lands there happily.

If your customisations have all been done without specifying a full URL for any changes you've done, then as above, just copy across, and change setting. Will probably be better in long run.

[militaryweb +]

One more further on this question. How do you move component up to main level. IE for SEO purposes, I want to move up or have the system store my webpages as mainsite.com/page1.html instead of mainsite.com/pages/page1.html How can you make the system change where webpages are sved when you edit in admin panel?

[tonybarnes +]

You could probably just do an rewrite rule for that in your HTaccess file - swapp mainsite.com/pages/ for mainsite.com/

Otherwise it will be buried in the php somewhere.

I'm not sure it's of detriment to SEO in the first place though?

[glutenFreeGoodies +]

Just wanted to pass on an update. I had also sent in a support ticket for this question. The response was the Interspire support staff could do this for me and so I let them do it. I don't know how they did it so I don't have any detail to add.

The support tickets are answered so slowly usually that I was going to use your ideas if needed. Thanks so much.

[websnail +]

Originally Posted by tonybarnes

Why does the database need to move? It's accessed via FTP - so long as the settings stay the same, it will point at the same database.

Think you got a bit confused there Tony. He was saying you'd need to export the data, edit it using a text editor and re-import, not move.

That said it's not something I'd recommend. You'd really just edit the htaccess to redirect or do an SQL update query on the relavant tables. Option #1 is a heck of a lot simpler.

[myshop +]

Moving from blah.com/store to just blah.com is really easy!

1. Change the URL in the store settings.
2. Move the contents of /store to / on webserver using FTP client.
3. All done except for one thing.. Anywhere *you* hard coded links to /store will need to be changed.

This only happens in:

a) Web content pages - If you have created hyperlinks or inserted images these will have /store in the HTML.
b) Product Descriptions - same as above
c) Category Descriptions - same as above
d) Banners - same as above

There is NO need to touch or worry about the sql database.

[swingsetmall +]

Does anyone here know what effect this type of folder move has with rankings in Google? We're getting ready to move our store two folders back and don't want to disturb any of our rankings by having all the links be broken.

Do we need to set up 301 redirects for every single link in our store? (If so, is there a way to streamline this, since we have thousands of links?) Or, does simply submitting an updated Sitemap to Google resolve this issue?

[tonybarnes +]

Originally Posted by websnail

Think you got a bit confused there Tony. He was saying you'd need to export the data, edit it using a text editor and re-import, not move.

That said it's not something I'd recommend. You'd really just edit the htaccess to redirect or do an SQL update query on the relavant tables. Option #1 is a heck of a lot simpler.

Ah, yes..!