Need Help: Can't specify Document Root

[diabloverde]

I have a Godaddy Shared hosting account using Linux / Apache server 1.3.  I have created the following directory structure for a subdomain:

/Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/Public_html/index.php

/Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/Public_html/php.ini

/Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/Public_html/css/

/Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/Public_html/javascript/

/Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/PHP_INCLUDES    (to protect includes from showing unparsed in the event of a freak accident)

/Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/.htaccess

 

when I type in http://www.Subdomain.com  it directs to the /Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/ directory. I don't have access to the Root configuration file since it is shared hosting. I can only modify .htaccess and php.ini. Can someone tell me how to get the the http://www.Subdomain.com request to redirect to the /Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/Public_html/ directory using .htaccess and/or php.ini?

 

I tried using DocumentRoot=".:/Primary Domain Document Root/Subdomain/Public_html" in the .htacess file of the Subdomain directory before I read that it can only be done the root configuration file.

 

If you can help, I will make an offering to the PHP Gods on your behalf (by proxy). And yes I am a noob, though I'd like to think an intermediate one.

[corbin]

You can't change a doc root with htaccess or php.ini.  It has to be in httpd.conf.

 

 

You could get some ghetto .htaccess ModRewrite magic going, but I would use that as a last resort.

[diabloverde]

Thanks for the confirmation on not being able to modify php.ini and .htaccess in that way. Hopefully they will let me modify httpd.conf.

[corbin]

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