Hi all,

I've recently been working on a site, which has come along quite nicely and is now approaching the time of release. My problem is that I was developing the site in a subdirectory using Joomla (an open-source CMS), so it's not exactly easy to move it into the root of the web address.

Thus, I don't want the index of my page to be www.sitename.com/subdirectory, I just want people to be able to type in www.sitename.com and get it, without the subdirectory appearing in the title bar at all. Is this possible?

Similarly, I have a forum at www.sitename.com/subdirectory/phpbb3, and I'd like people to be able to access it through www.sitename.com/forum - is this possible as well?

Basically, I have no knowledge of this area of web programming at all, so any help would be greatly appreciated!

This is not too difficult. In Joomla there is a setting for the site root (in your case www.sitename.com/subdirectory) just change it to the new location you need. If you have used absolute links elsewhere in your development (in css, img tag, a links etc.), you have to change those as well. You might also need to change them in the database. Just us phpmyadmin and the search function to find and replace them.

The same goes for phpbb3.