How to remove /drupal from URL in Drupal 7 when installation is in the associated sub-directory

Question

In Drupal 6 I was able to successful install Drupal in a subdirectory called drupal and then reference the site without having to use example.com/drupal. In Drupal 6 to get this

Answer 1

On Apache server, add this to the root .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*) drupal/$1 [L]

Update the drupal settings.php file (in /drupal/site/default/ directory) so that the $base_url line reads:

$base_url = 'http://www.example.com';