dlo_itools
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Aug 27, 2002, 10:31 AM
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Re: [thankful] Dummy question on main index page
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As we say in the software industry, there are no stupid questions, only products with versatile features (well, maybe only marketing says that...)
You can easily change the publish directory to any other directory, even to your web root.
1. Goto Setup Options
2. Select the Server tab
3. Change the Publish Dir and Publish URL fields to match whatever your web root is. In most cases you can just remove the "artman/publish/" part from those fields.
4. Click the Publish All
Keep in mind that publishing to the web root will put all the article files there, which is messy in the long term. An alternative is to put the index pages on the web root, but the article_ and printer_ pages in a directory of their own. You can do this by adding these steps to the steps above:
4. Don't Click Publish All yet. Change the Article and Article Printer fields to add a directory reference at the beginning. For example,to put the articles in the "xyz" directory, change the Article fields to "xyz/article_" and "xyz/printer_"
5. Login to your website to create the xyz/ directory.
6. Click Publish All.
Now the index directories will be in the web root, but article and printer pages will be in the xyz directory. Note that articles with user specified filenames will always go in the directory specified by PublishDir.
/Dave Lo
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YES! 
Yes, setting the include to virtual and using a relative reference worked! And, yep, ya actually have to set the textarea to use WSIWYG or not. Working wonderfully! Your help saved me hours and a bottle of scotch. Well, it might not save the scotch...