Would the following two be better than redirection?

Change the document root directory?
A symobolic link?

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, DCT Jared Smith wrote:

> Forwarded message from Seth Dimbert:
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> I've got a problem.
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> A site I administer went bad and I'm in the process of rebuilding it. When I
> decided to recreate it using a CMS, I placed the entire kit and kaboodle in
> /public_html/pub/html for reasons that made sense at the time. Right now,
> index.html sits in /public_html/ saying, "Just you wait! The new site is
> gonna be great!"
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> Problem is, when the new site goes live, no one will know how to get to it
> because it's buried down in /public_html/pub/html/. I *know* that the
> solution is a "redirection," but I don't know how to do it.
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> Basically, I need a call to www.domain.com to send the browser to
> www.domain.com/foo/bar/ in a way that the user won't even notice. I have to
> do this because I can't simply move the folders; paths would break.
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> This is simple, right? How do I do it?
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