PLEASE EXPLAIN...DOCUMENT ROOT

[new2learn]

I have heard so many times about this and stil cannot get the picture..what is document root.

new2learn

 

[comtec17]

Document Root is the path given to apache and where your web path is.

 

[flugh]

DocumentRoot is the 'physical' location on the filesystem that the webserver uses for the root of the website in question. A common place for it is /var/

http://www/html.

That means if a site named

http://www.yoursite.com

is served from your server, and you point your browser at

http://www.yoursite.com/,

the webserver will serve up the index file, or a directory listing (if allowed) from /var/

http://www/html

(common is /var/

http://www/html/index.html).

It's a bit different for virtual hosts. There's a nice example of virtual host configuration in faq65-1831 (part of the Apache forum at Forum65).

Hope that makes sense

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JBR

 

[new2learn]

THANK YOU ...now I also understand what document root mean and will play with it a bit..

THANKS for the kindness..

new2learn