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Using VuFind as the Site Root

This page refers to VuFind 1.x; for the VuFind 2.x instructions, see this page.

By default, VuFind is configured to reside within a directory of your website. However, if you want to configure VuFind to load at the root of your domain, follow these steps:

In the [Site] section of web/conf/config.ini, set the “path” setting to “” (empty double quotes) and the “url” setting to “http://yourdomain.edu” (obviously replacing this with your real domain name).
In httpd-vufind.conf, make the following changes:
- Remove the Alias line at the top of the file.
- RewriteBase should be /
- Remove the vufind path from the <Location> tag used for Admin permissions.
You may need to create a virtual host in Apache to complement httpd-vufind.conf. For example:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /user/local/vufind/web
    ServerName yourdomain.edu
    ServerAlias www.yourdomain.edu
</VirtualHost>