Moving prestashop site to domain root

[franz66]

Hello,

I'll start by saying that I'm a PrestaShop newbie, I need to move a site created in PS ver. 1.7.8 from a subfolder to the root of the domain. Since there are other files/folders in the root, I thought of proceeding as I usually do with WP, that is, leaving the files in the folder and moving only the index.php to the root. In this regard, I moved the index and htaccess files to the root and modified the first by adding

require dirname(__FILE__).'/shop/config/config.inc.php';

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = __DIR__ . '/shop/index.php';
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = '/shop/index.php';
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = '/shop/index.php';

and the htaccess file with these

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/shop/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /shop/$1 [L]

I changed the URL configuration in the Back Office:

Shop URL in https://mydomain.com/

Base URL in /shop/

I cleared the cache but I get Error 500 Internal Server Error on the domain URL.

Any suggestions on this? Has anyone ever tried this solution? I don't want to have to move all the content of the subfolder to the root.

Thanks

[Knowband Plugins]

I don't think the system will work in this way. htaccess file, the PS URL structure might conflict in this case. 

Better to move the entire content to the root folder.  I hope there are no files/folders with the same name in the root folder.

 

[franz66]

thanks, then I will have to move all the files to the root...