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Installing via FTP vs. cPanel.

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I originally unzipped concrete on my local drive, then uploaded via FTP and intalled Concrete on the top (public_html) level. Then, intrigued by zit's videocast on unzipping and installing from the cPanel, I tried that. However, cPanel places everything one level down, in a concrete5.0.0 subdirectory, which means I have to redirect so the index page displays when a user enters the simple url.

What do you see as the tradeoffs here?

Do I take an SEO hit with a redirect?

Thanks!

Mark
markcmyers
 
zit replied on at Permalink Reply
If you want to use concrete5 to run your whole website. Then do what you did originally, take all the files and directories that were in the concrete5.0.0 folder that was created when unzipping the zip file and upload all of them right into the root of your public_html folder.

Then you don't have to deal with any redirects and you can have nice clean urls while moving around your site.
markcmyers replied on at Permalink Reply
markcmyers
So it looks as if ftp is the better way to go for most people.

My sister lives in Wooster. Is that near you at all?

Mark
zit replied on at Permalink Reply
I am quite familiar with Wayne County and it's county seat: Wooster.
opeyemi2012 replied on at Permalink Reply
Please help me. I just installed Concrete5 in my Cpanel but I'm getting an empty page instead of the website. Please help urgently.