Base URL of store on Blue Domino

[ChrisEdgington]

I have a site that I designed with ShopSite ... it is ready to go live. You can view it at http://www.shirtwurks.com/store.

The problem is this - I cannot see how to make the store be based at the root domain name instead of at /store.

Blue Domino tech support says I need to add a domain pointer then modify all the HTML to remove the "store" part of image paths.

Of course I dont want to modify HTML - 'cause then anytime a new version of the store needs generated - those changes are gone.

I've read other posts about this - sounds like a normal redirect will not allow us to be discovered as well by search engines, which is why I want to be based on the root of the domain.

Anybody have any help with regards to how to accomplish this with Blue Domino?

Thanks,
-Chris

[loren_d_c]

The only way to have ShopSite generate the links without the /store on it would be for Blue Domino to get a replacement ShopSite license for your store without /store on the end of the authorized URL. It is not a ShopSite requirement that your store pages be in any particular subdirectory like /store, but I believe this is how Blue Domino (among others) sets up all of their ShopSite stores by default.

-Loren

[ChrisEdgington]

Thanks for the response.

If others do this - then I assume many sites are bound to this configuration.

How are other sites getting around this and making it so their base domain name gets users to their store?

Thanks,
-Chris

[ChrisEdgington]

FYI - Blue Domino tech support solved the problem.

They created a "symlink" to the root domain to point to the "store" folder. Therefore, when the web server gets sent to the root domain, it gets redirected to the "store" folder by the filesystem. Only downside is that I have to put any non store files in the store folder - which is fine with me. It all works now.

-Chris