how to configuring a xampp web server for different root directory

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The web directory is the home of all of your application s public and static files  Including images  stylesheets and JavaScript files  It is also where the front controllers live   So the question is when i install and set up xampp my web directory is   xampp htdocs   and I want to set it up for   xampp htdocs myproject web   How to do it  Now when I type in my browser the address  http   localhost  I enter xampp htdocs directory and I want to  type in my browser the address  http   localhost  and enter xampp htdocs myproject web directory

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Go to  C  xampp apache conf httpd conf  Open httpd conf Find tag   DocumentRoot  C  xampp htdocs  Edit tag to    DocumentRoot  C  xampp htdocs myproject web  Now find tag  and change it to  lt  Directory  C  xampp htdocs myproject web    Restart Your Apache

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You can change Apaches httpd conf by clicking  in xampp control panel  apache conf httpd conf and adjust the entries for DocumentRoot and the corresponding Directory entry  Just Ctrl F for  quot htdocs quot  and change the entries to your new path  See screenshot       DocumentRoot  The directory out of which you will serve your   documents  By default  all requests are taken from this directory  but   symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations    DocumentRoot  quot C  xampp htdocs quot   lt Directory  quot C  xampp htdocs quot  gt

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In case  if anyone prefers a simpler solution  especially on Linux  e g  Ubuntu   a very easy way out is to create a symbolic link to the intended folder in the htdocs folder  For example  if I want to be able to serve files from a folder called   home some projects testserver   and my htdocs is located in   opt lampp htdocs    Just create a symbolic link like so    ln -s  home some projects testserver  opt lampp htdocs testserver   The command for symbolic link works like so        ln -s target source where   target - The existing file directory you would like to link TO  source - The file folder to be created  copying the contents of the target  The LINK itself    For more help see ln --help  Source  Create Symbolic Links in Ubuntu  And that s done  just visit http   localhost testserver  In fact  you don t even need to restart your server

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I moved my htdocs folder from C  xampp htdocs to D  htdocs without editing the Apache config file  httpd conf     Step 1  Move C  xampp htdocs folder to D  htdocs Step 2  Create a symbolic link in C  xampp htdocs linked to D  htdocs using mklink command   D   gt mklink  J C  xampp htdocs D  htdocs Junction created for C  xampp htdocs  lt  lt     gt  gt  D  htdocs  D   gt    Step 3  Done

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If you are running xampp on linux based image  to change root directory open    opt lampp etc httpd conf   Change default document root       DocumentRoot   opt lampp htdocs  and  lt Directory   opt lampp htdocs   to your folder DocumentRoot   opt lampp htdocs myFolder  and  lt Directory   opt lampp htdocs myFolder  gt

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Possible values for the Options directive are  None    All     or any combination of      Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews     Note that  MultiViews  must be named  explicitly  ---  Options All    doesn t give it to you      The Options directive is both complicated and important   Please see   http   httpd apache org docs 2 2 mod core html options   for more information    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI      AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in  htaccess files    It can be  All    None   or any combination of the keywords      Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit   AllowOverride All      Controls who can get stuff from this server    Require all granted     Write above code inside following tags     lt  Directory  c  projects     lt    Directory   c  you can add any directory d  e   is drive where you have created your project folder   Alias  projects  c  projects   Now you can access the pr0jects directory on your browser    localhost projects

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You can change the port while you open your XAMP control panel  follow the steps   click on config net to the start button  and select httpd conf   a text file will open check the file and file listen 80  once got listen 80 replace with listen 8080 and save in the same folder   Once done that  you will be able to start your local server

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You can also put in a new virtual Host entry in the      c  xampp apache conf httpd-vhosts conf   like    lt VirtualHost   80 gt    ServerAdmin webmaster dummy-host2 example com   DocumentRoot  C  xampp htdocs myproject web    ServerName localhost   ErrorLog  logs dummy-host2 example com-error log    CustomLog  logs dummy-host2 example com-access log  common  lt  VirtualHost gt

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ok guys you are not going to believe me how easy it is  so i putted a video on YouTube to show you that   click here    now    steps     run your xampp control panel click the button saying config select apache  httpd conf   find document root replace   DocumentRoot  C  xampp htdocs   lt Directory  C  xampp htdocs  gt   those 2 lines     C  xampp htdocs    current location for root    change C  xampp htdocs with any location you want   save it DONE  start apache and go to the localhost  see in action   watch video click here

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For XAMMP versions  gt  7 5 9-0 also change the DocumentRoot in file  quot  opt lampp etc extra httpd-ssl conf quot  accordingly

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