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Can I set my document root to index.cgi in cgi-bin on letshost.ie using cpanel

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  • 06-02-2010 4:14pm
    #1
    paulig
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I think the title explains most of this, i.e. I want my cgi-bin to be my document root.

    I can kind of achieve this using redirection (easy in cpanel), as in redirect www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi, but I'm wondering if this messes up search engine indexing, pagerank and what not? My suspicion is that it probably does.

    So if anybody here is using letshost.ie or another cpanel based hosting service and has an ideas it'd be great to hear them!

    Thank,

    Paul.


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    #2
    fuzzsc00ta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭fuzzsc00ta


    I think cPanel defaults the document root of the primary domain to public_html. As far as I'm aware, this cannot be changed by the cPanel user. However, you can set custom root directories for Addon domains.

    Your best bet would be to contact Letshost support and explain what you are trying to accomplish (and why, as there may be other solutions to the problem).


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    Billz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Billz


    If you have a VPS w / apache you can modify your httpd.conf file to point to your custom doc root.

    Otherwise defining another doc root should be handy enough. You could probably do a redirect if you needed to aswell


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