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If I load geeklog into my weroot directory what would this path look like $_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . 'public_html/'; if I take out the public_html directory would it look like this $_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path'] . '/'; I am sorry I did not see an example of what it looks like if the config file is in the root. Thanks

It would be $_CONF['path_html'] = $_CONF['path']; $_CONF['path'] already ends in a slash, so you don't need to add another one. However, this is NOT a good idea. Everything that's outside the public_html directory is there for a reason - it should not be accessible via a URL. What you have now is that your config.php is accessible via http://yourdomain/config.php. In case of a server misconfiguration, all the world can see your config file, including your MySQL password. Surely you don't want that. Also accessible are the log files which may contain sensitive information, too. So don't do that. If you can't create directories above your DocumentRoot (as is the case with some hosting services), put all the files which are outside of public_html into a folder, say geeklog, put that into you DocumentRoot and secure it with a .htaccess and .htpasswd file. bye, Dirk

Thanks Dirk, I wanted to do this so that when www.foo.com is entered it will find the index.php. How can I do this? Do I have to run a redirect script? That seems slow what do you suggest. Thanks again, Kel