Could use a wee bit of help with Mambo (or perhaps other) CMS packages

[toxostoma]

I've installed Mambo on my account, and it looks like it will do just the job needed.

My biggest confusion is this. I installed it in a directory, ie: www.mydomain.com/Mambo. Well, if I want to run the entire site using Mambo, how can I get it so that www.mydomain.com pulls up the initial front page? I don't want it to be apparent that the whole site's being run out of a directory called "Mambo." I do realize that I could rename the directory to /home and then do a redirect when people come to my url and send them to www.mydomain.com/home. This is better, but certainly not ideal.

Also, I'm going to have subdomains. I didn't know if I should place all the content in my main installation of Mambo, and then setup a redirect, so that when someone goes to subdomain.mydomain.com they end up in the right place. Or if I should (can I?) make multiple installations of Mambo so that each installation is its own seperate entity for a subdomain.

I think I can figure out the subdomain thing by trial and error. But the first one has me a little confused, as I looked around and couldn't really find anything to clarify.

Thanks for anyone who could help me out and point me in the right direction.

[Frank Hagan]

Almost all of the CMS I've tried set themselves up by default in a subdirectory. I've never understood why.

You can move the files up a directory, or, my favorite, delete everything and re-install manually using the latest distribution files (as opposed to using Cpanel's automatic install, if you used that previously). That's the cleanest way, as you don't have to find all the path statements in the program.

[drue]

I assume you may have solved your problem by now, but, if not... here goes:

I have mambo installed in the main public_html directory. Just untar it to there to start with and everything works as you'd want. You can still create subdomains (as long as they don't conflict with Mambo's main directories).

If you want to preserve your install as is, you can go into your Mambo subdirectory using jailshell and

mv * ..

But you'll have to edit your Mambo configuration.php by hand. It's not a big deal, I think there might be 2 settings ($mosConfig_live_site and $mosConfig_absolute_path, and maybe $mosConfig_cachepath depending on it's path) to reflect the new location of files.