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This tutorial is going to show you how to move your Drupal site from a sub-folder to the root folder, that is to make your site appear at \u00a0"www.mysite.com<\/strong>" instead\u00a0 of\u00a0 "www.mysite.com\/subdirectory<\/strong>" in your browser. <\/p>\r\n 1)<\/strong> Move all files from your “subdirectory” folder to the root folder (often called public_html or www). All info on how to do this should be provided by your hosting. # RewriteBase \/ subdirectory <\/strong><\/p>\r\n to:<\/p>\r\n RewriteBase \/<\/strong><\/p>\r\n and save the changes;<\/p>\r\n 3)<\/strong> In the sites\/default\/settings.php<\/strong> file you need to change:<\/p>\r\n $base_url = ‘http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/ subdirectory’;\u00a0 \/\/ NO trailing slash!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n and save the changes; <\/p>\r\n 4)<\/strong> If some of your images in blogposts \u00a0had full links to the domain name, subfolder etc like “\/ subdirectory \/file_name.extension”, the best way to update them for each image manually.<\/p>\r\n Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n
\r\n2)<\/strong> Open the .htaccess<\/strong>file that is now in your root folder in any text editor and \u0441hange:<\/p>\r\n