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';

Answer 2

Try with this :

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /example.com
RewriteRule ^$ drupal/ [L]

# rewrite rules for drupal files
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/example.com/drupal/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ drupal/$1 [L,QSA]

# rewrite rules for drupal paths
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ drupal/index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Put this .htaccess file in example.com directory. You don't have to modify drupal7 .htaccess

Answer 3

I answered a very similar question on this here: Two Drupal installation on the same server My answer to your question is the same, I recommend eschewing the rewrite method in favor of the virtual host method as described below (which is just an excerpt of what I answered in the link above):

... To do this correctly you must first enter the following line (or un-comment the line if >it already exists):

NameVirtualHost *:80

Next you must create the two virtual host entries. One will be similar to the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your.url.fortheroot
ServerAlias alternate.url.fortheroot
DocumentRoot "/path/to/webroot"
</VirtualHost>

The next entry would be similar to the following

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your.url.forthesubfoldertest
ServerAlias alternate.url.forthesubfolder
DocumentRoot "/path/to/webroot/test"
</VirtualHost>

...

In your case, however, you would only require one virtual host entry & not two.

Additionally, it should be noted that, should you desire to serve a site from a location NOT in your webroot then you would also need a

<Directory></Directory>

entry to tell Apache what access to give to visitors (NOTE: in Linux the Apache user should be made owner of the files [or permissions should be set in a method that still allows the apache user rights to serve the files if you want to avoid giving it ownership])