Moving entire site to subdir, preserving old links (?)

[zencoder]

My current site (in another CMS) is located in the root. I want to move it entirely to subdir (for example "newroot"). But I want that all links from my old site, remain untouched: old link is www.mysite.com/index.html the new one after moving will be www.mysite.com/newroot/index.html. But I need that new link in new site for external world was remain in old form - www.mysite.com/index.html
As I know this can be done via mod rewrite, but I don`t know what exactly must be written and in what order.
Please help me to move my site to the new (internal) location and preserve (external) links to it.

[Connie]

try like the example:

http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/85/U...ite+rules#

Cheers, Connie

[Ampersand]

old link is www.mysite.com/index.html the new one after moving will be www.mysite.com/newroot/index.html. But I need that new link in new site for external world was remain in old form - www.mysite.com/index.html

Try using in your mysite.com folder following .htaccess content:

Code:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9-]+)\.html$ newwroot/index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]

also to make use of built-in GS menu (to be able to add pages to menu an then use get_navigation() in template) in custom permalinks settings set:

Code:

%slug%.html

Please keep in mind I am not an expert and can't test the above or guarantee it works.

[yojoe]

Simplest way to do it:
1. edit main .htaccess file, and change RewriteBase / to RewriteBase /newroot
2. move all GS file to newroot dir, leaving only .htaccess file in root directory