Not sure about the first question, I'll have to look into it. Who do you use for hosting? I ended up going through my host url and redirecting to my b2evo blog. Not the best way to do it but it was the easiest! =] As for your second question, b2evo can be either or. I use b2evo as a addon to my website but there are more than several users on this forum that use it as a stand-alone.

@menoz
In your conf folder -> basic_config.php, what have you entered as your base URL?

* @global string $baseurl
*/
$baseurl = 'http://yoursite.com/';

http://www.menoz.com calls index.html in the root dir
http://www.menoz.com/blogs calls index.php in the blogs subdir

so I've answered my own question : why the welcome/start page has not gone away? A. its a static html page that is named index.html, which is the file a websever looks for when the damain or directory is called

The webhost I use is Bytehost : fairly good service but the installer for such programs as b2evo is mostly handled by them... I could install it myself but thats more work than I have time for.

my baseurl is set correctly in the basic config file. and everything seems to be working as its suppose to.

Yes it appears that I will either have to use a redirect or code a doorway page to direct visitors to the blog site. The door way page is some what attractive, at this point , if I consider the other features my site will have (forum and other cgi programs, ect)

Thanx guys for the responses.

Hi menoz. There seems to be a bit of a conflict there yah? IF you want your blog at the root level then everything in the 'blogs' folder needs to move UP one level, in other words: out of 'blogs'. You would then not need the 'blogs' folder anymore. You would also have to change the $baseurl in conf/_basic_config.php to show that your blog is at your root level.

So that's your Q1 yah?

Q2 is easy: it was designed to be a multi-user multi-lingual multi-blog app that CAN be an additional part of a website OR the entire website. I use it both ways. In fact I have one installation where it is both the root AND an added component. Long story, but it works for that web.

If you are comfortable with the static index.html page you can of course keep it. You can edit it and make it be what you want, and use it to point to your blog. And whatever other components you might see fit to put on your web. But please understand that the way you've got it installed is as an extra bit - not as the entire web.