Question

I have a php websites hosted on a server. I use CPanel to manage it. public_html has lets say following directory structure

public_html
  - dir1
  - dir2
  - dir3
  - ....other files.....
  - website2home

Now I am trying to make website2home as the base directory of my website, but files inside website2home use some files from public_html folder and some files from within itself.

THE PROBLEM

When I assign a domain name to website2home, It does not reads the files from public_html folder (in fact, public_html folder is not visible) and shows some php warnings and some 404 not found errors. But lets say the domain name for original website is www.aaa.com, then if I access website2home by using www.aaa.com/website2home all works fine.

So My Question…

Is there any way to set the base directory, so that my website2home fetches all files and correct files without replacing hundreds of filepaths in php code?

Please answer considering that I don’t want to modify source files of website.

Answer 1

I believe you are looking for some kind of .htaccess configuration. For instance, you may set your website2home folder as base folder for your http://www.aaa.com domain and then redirect some file access to other folders using .htaccess, something like this..

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule captcha.jpg ../captcha.jpg
RewriteRule \.pdf$ ../pdf_files/$1

Have a look to mod_rewrite documentation

Edit: If, for some reason, the ../ redirection doesn’t work, you always can redirect all your files to a pseudo-index PHP page. For instance:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule captcha.jpg my_index.php?access=../captcha.jpg
RewriteRule \.pdf$ my_index.php?access=../pdf_files/$1

And then, in your index PHP page you can simply load your PHP files in other folder:

require "../pdf_files/$requested";