NYCPHP Meetup

[Bill Kamm]

I'm new to Joomla and have what I think is a basic question, but I can't 
find a good answer anywhere.  I have an existing web site, at 
mydomain.com.  My homepage is mydomain.com/index.php.  Now I want to 
install Joomla, and take my time learning it while my existing web site 
stays in place.  So I install Joomla into a subdirectory, and I can 
access it at mydomain.com/joomla/index.php, without anybody else knowing 
about it.  That's fine until my Joomla site is ready to go live.  I 
don't want users to have to go to mydomain.com/joomla, so how can I get 
my Joomla site to show up when visitors go to mydomain.com?  Do I use 
.htaccess?  (I don't want the 'joomla' address appearing in the 
browser's address field if I can help it.)  Do I copy everything from 
the Joomla directory up to my document root?  Any other suggestions?  
Thanks,

Bill