Masking Joomla install directory

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This Dreamhost thread was started by mikecron on 2009-11-04 11:42:43:

Post Reply? Hi all, I’m starting to work with Joomla and have followed some steps to mask the installation directory that I put Joomla in. I installed Joomla to my domain.com/j/ directory, and have set up my .htaccess file to make it appear as though all pages are coming right from the root: domain.com/ Internet Explorer seems to be the exception, however. All other browsers have no problem accessing the site (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.) but IE returns a DNS error and says it can’t connect to the domain. Here’s the content of my .htaccess file: #These first two lines might already be in the file - no need to repeat Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on # remove “www” (this may be optional) #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.roninstudio.net$ [NC] #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://roninstudio.net/$1 [R=301] # Redirect to the Joomla root folder RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?roninstudio.net$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(index.html)?$ http://www.roninstudio.net/j/ [R=301] # Only apply to URLs on this domain RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?roninstudio.net$ # Only apply to URLs that aren’t already under folder RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/j/ # Don’t apply to URLs that go to existing files or folders RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d # Rewrite all those to insert /j RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /j/$1 [L] Does anything here jump out at anyone as to why this might be the case? I cobbled these rules together based on various postings from the net — my understanding on this topic is rudimentary, so I’m hoping someone else has a better grasp on this.

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