Does anyone know if changing the home directory of a kirby web site from the root folder (/) to “new” (/new), would screw up SEO rankings, etc.? The kirby file structure hasn’t changed, just the styling.
thanks
If you move your Kirby installation to a different path, make sure that content is still accessible by old links/URLs. You can use mod_rewrite for Apache 2 for this. Otherwise this will cause trouble to visitors of your site who bookmarked pages and it might result in bad search engine results as your site has to be reindexed by the search engine’s crawler.
As long as the URLs stay the same, that won’t make any difference. And what @warg already mentioned when he beat me to it…
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even if pages are bookmarked, the directory structure isn’t changing. I’m only changing the document root to point to /new. Users won’t have to go to domain.com/new. Bookmarks should work as-is after clearing out server cache, correct?
thanks of quick response, btw.
Yes. When you just point home to new nothing will change as long as you didn’t use new before, which will then be gone.
well…not sure of the issue here. I’ve edited the htaccess file in root to redirect to /new folder. The home page loads fine, but my navigation links are still pointing to the new directory…such as: domain.com/new/about.
any help is appreciated
Why? Maybe we are talking about different things here?
Edit: If seen your other post, that is another story.
follow up from previous post.
I have a new kirby site off the root in a folder named /new. I’ve edited the htaccess file in root to redirect to /new folder. The home page loads fine, but my navigation links are still pointing to the new directory…such as: domain.com/new/about. The new site loads fine but not still showing “new” in the url.
Also, when I go to domain.com/about, the old about content and design is loading.
any help is appreciated
Why don’t you point the URL to the new folder? Instead of to the root?