Mambo

[Sullied]

Now I might be dumb, or maybe just green, but I have installed Mambo on one of the sites I mamage and am working on the site but have one trouble.

When I browse to the site I have to go into the /mambo directory or setup a referral link in index.html in the root directory to get there, and this shows the page as being in the /mambo directory.

As the install script won't allow me to install mambo in the root directory how do I over come this so my visitors will go straight into the web site?

[sdjl]

I'm going to assume you are using the auto-installer under cPanel..

To get round not being able to install in the route directory, download the latest version from Mambo's website and upload and install it yourself

David

[Sullied]

So why do they have the auto installer at all? or why not configure it correctly?

[timg]

Mambo on cPanel

Realize that (1) the auto-installer is a cPanel feature, and really has nothing to do with Dathorn; (2) cPanel is not guaranteed to be 100% up-to-date with versions of software; (3) Dathorn does not necessarily run the latest version of cPanel; (4) and many people don't want to use Mambo in their root directory.

In any case, you need to use the latest version of Mambo; the two versions in cPanel have some security vulnerabilities, I believe. (At least, one does.)

In a lot of cases, I would only use cPanel to install software to test out (because it's easy). If you like it and find it useful, download the latest version from Sourceforge (or wherever it's offered).

[dammitjanet]

its pretty easy to move mambo after an install, just use shell access and execute a mv command on the contents of the mambo directory.

if you are in the mambo directory do something like (im no unix guru, i sometimes have to try a few versions to remember exactly how to do this)

mv * ../

Then you need edit the configuration.php file and change the url and paths in there to reflect the changes.