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[akwasi_c Friend akwasi_cJoin date: August 2008Posts: 124Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 8 times in 1 posts]

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I have learn’t a lot from the good folks here, and I have just discovered something that bothers me and need help to streamline things secure my sites;
Well I have a hosting account with a company, and since I am not a programmer I have relied on Joomlart templates and have learnt so much from here. When I was about to start installing templates, someone told be it would be a good idea to install site templates in sub-folders, for instance, my main website URL is http://www.mainsite.com so with the sub-folder it would be http://www.mainsite.com/subfolder. Then I had to do URL redirect to point (http://www.mainsite.com) to the sub http://www.mainsite.com/subfolder, so this is how my main site has been working.
I have also installed other templates to other sites that I have added through cpanel and they are all doing well.
Well this is where I am uncomfortable, I deleted the redirect for my ‘mainsite’, and to my amazement, when I typed http://www.mainsite.com, the URL pointed me to my public_html and showed all my subfolders that contains my other sites for instance; subfolder(mainsite.com), subfolder1(site#2.com), subfolder2(site#3.com)

What is the best practice in securing and manage installations and sites. I had wanted to install Teline IV in the public_html folder without using the subfolder option

[thangnn1510 Friend thangnn1510Join date: October 2014Posts: 1608Downloads:0Uploads:80 Thanks: 73 Thanked: 278 times in 256 posts]

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Hi akwasi_c!

Please put a index.php or index.html to root foolder (public_html). When you type http://www.mainsite.com the browser will display content of index.php (or index.html), not show all your sub-folders.

Hope this helps you.

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