How to make domain point to another web directory?

Question

My client gave me limited access to his webserver. At the moment, I have 2 versions of the same website and they are

/home/public_html/

and

/home/public_html/newversion/

I want to point mydomain.com from /home/public_html/ to /home/public_html/newversion/

I have acces to the PLESK control panel. I have ssh access, but it's a non-root account, and i don't think i'm able to access any Apache config files. I do have the option of using .htaccess files

What should I do?

Answer 1

Given lots of assumptions about your configuration, the best bet is probably:

• move everything in /home/public_html to /home/public_html/oldversion
• then move everything from /home/public_html/newversion to /home/public_html

Answer 2

.htaccess file in /home/public_html

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond !newversion
RewriteRule (.*) newversion/$1 [QSA]