Edit configure.php or using mod_rewrite?

[Micke]

I have finished builing my osCommerce shop at http://example.com/catalog.

Now I have gotten myself a nice domain name (www.shopsname.com) pointing to that location.

Once the customer gets to www.shopname.com every internal link leads to a http://example.com/whatever-catalog-page.

That's not the way I want it so I first tried to edit configure.php. That works, but for some reason it kills the Autologon feature I want. Autologon forgets me for some reason...

So the host-support says "use mod_rewrite" but he can't tell me how.

I have tried for a couple of hours to edit the .htaccess -file in my catalog directory but I can't make it work...

 

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.3 2003/06/12 10:53:20 hpdl Exp $
#
# This is used with Apache WebServers
#
# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to
# the AllowOverride configuration
#
# Example:
#
# <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
#   AllowOverride Options
# </Directory>
#
# 'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the
# apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

# The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet
# Explorer browsers

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
 <IfDefine SSL>
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
		 nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
		 downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
 </IfDefine>
</IfModule>

# If Search Engine Friendly URLs do not work, try enabling the
# following Apache configuration parameter
#
# AcceptPathInfo On

# Fix certain PHP values
# (commented out by default to prevent errors occuring on certain
# servers)
#
#<IfModule mod_php4.c>
#  php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
#  php_value register_globals 1
#</IfModule>

 

What lines do I have to add here?

Or does anyone know how to make autologon work with www.shopsname.com?

[jasonabc]

That's not the way I want it

So how *do* you want it? You have installed your store in a subfolder (catalog) but it sounds like there are no references to this folder anywhere in your config files.....?