I used to build my sites in the root directory but lately I've started to building them in subdirectories.

For example, I'll install my CMS like Wordpress or Joomla in a subdirectory such as ____________________________ or ____________________________ .

This puts the front page at ____________________________ rather than ____________________________ .

I find that this way I can have a "Coming Soon" page at ____________________________ and when the site is ready to launch, I setup a 301 redirect from ____________________________ to ____________________________ .

Am I setting myself up for any problems like SEO issues or any other problems now or in the future by doing this? Is there a better, more accepted way? Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

Sorry, the forum wouldn't accept my post with the examples because they look like links to other websites even though they were only samples.

Darn, I can't even edit the post to add the examples.

Let me try this... h**p://***.*****.com/index.php vs h**p://***.*****.com/wp/index.php

Ok, I just read that after 5 posts I should be able to post my question with all of its original formatting and this is post number 5.

Ok, so here's the original question correctly formatted for clarity...

I used to build my sites in the root directory but lately I've started to building them in subdirectories.

For example, I'll install my CMS like Wordpress or Joomla in a subdirectory such as http://www.domain.com/wp or http://www.domain.com/joomla.

This puts the front page at http://www.domain.com/wp/index.php rather than http://www.domain.com/index.php.

I find that this way I can have a "Coming Soon" page at http://www.domain.com/index.php and when the site is ready to launch, I setup a 301 redirect from http://www.domain.com/ to http://www.domain.com/wp/.

Am I setting myself up for any problems like SEO issues or any other problems now or in the future by doing this? Is there a better, more accepted way? Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

what ever you do they think you as spammer only. So ask your question properly.

what ever you do they think you as spammer only. So ask your question properly.

Are you saying that I should start over and ask the question in a new thread?

I wrote the question in notepad but when I tried to paste it into the message window, it wouldn't accept it with the sample url's. I don't know how else to explain what I'm talking about without the sample paths.

Apparently I can post the original question now because I have more than 5 posts.

I would be happy to delete this thread and start over but then I would have the same problem of not having enough posts to be able to submit my question.

This method is fairly common, and is one of the better accepted methods. You could also use php for the redirect.

As for putting the site in a sub folder...I think you're fine and like I said, I see this all the time, and I think it's pretty accepted.

I'm no SEO expert however. So I wouldn't be able to answer that one.

I just read somewhere else that index.html takes priority over index.php so I could just put an index.html page in the root directory until I'm ready to launch, right?

This depends on your server setup. That can actually be changed