drupal and domain names

Hi,

I have an account with DreamHost with the domain mydomain.com. Next I wanted to install drupal. In the goodies section of the web panel, I chose to do the one click install under "easy mode" of drupal.

When installing drupal the DreamHost panel requested that the install be placed at a subdomain, I chose drupal.mydomain.com. What I wanted was the drupal install to be put at mydomain.com.

Is there a way to either install drupal to mydomain.com or alternatively have mydomain.com alias drupal.mydomain.com without a full redirect?

Thanks.

Easy one-clicks can't be installed in a Fully Hosted (i.e. existing) domain or subdomain.

I've not tried one-clicking Drupal into a domain, but I've done it to a subdomain. I'm surprised it doesn't let you install it into example.com. The Goodies form does say "Domain (or sub-domain)." But if you've already installed it a subdomain, you can create a Mirror Domain that's a mirror of that subdomain. That'll work just fine.
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Mirror_Domain

-Scott

Thanks for the response.

I took a look at doing what you said. In my web panel I tried to set up my domain as a mirror of my drupal subdomain but the drupal subdomain: drupal.mydomain.com does not appear in the mirror drop down list.

Dang, that's a bummer. I hadn't thought of that, nor did I check. The dropdown only shows the domains listed in the Domains -> Manage Domains list.

Your two choices are: do a redirect, which isn't that great, or re-install Drupal as your domain. If you've already set up your Drupal nicely, see if there's a Database Dump/Backup utility in the Admin menu. Create a new Drupal, then dump from your old install and restore to your new install.

-Scott