Where is the web server root directory in WAMP

Question

Also is the web server root directory the place where you put your site files and later acces them with localhost file name in the browser

User · Answer

this is the path to the web root directory c:\wamp\www

you can create different projects by adding different folders to this directory and call them like:

localhost/project1 from browser

this will run the index.html or index.php, lying inside project1

User · Answer

Everything suggested by user  mins  is correct  and excellent information   WAMP 2 5 provides a default Server Configuration display when you enter localhost into your browser   This maps to c  wamp www  as described in previous posts   Creating subdirectories under www will cause Projects to appear on this display   A click and you re in your project   I have various projects under different directory structures  sometimes on shared drives which makes this centralized location of files inconvenient   Luckily  there is a second feature of WAMP 2 5  an Alias  which makes specifying the location of one  or more  disparate web directories quite easy   No editing of configuration files   Using the WAMP menu  choose Apache   Alias directories   Add an Alias   WAMP has evolved nicely to provide support for a variety of developer preferences

User · Answer

If you installed WAMP to c  wamp then I believe your webserver root directory would be c  wamp www  however this might vary depending on version   Yes  this is where you would put your site files to access them through a browser

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Here s how I get there using Version 3 0 6 on Windows

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In WAMP the files are served by the Apache component  the A in WAMP     In Apache  by default the files served are located in the subdirectory htdocs of the installation directory  But this can be changed  and is actually changed when WAMP installs Apache   The location from where the files are served is named the DocumentRoot  and is defined using a variable in Apache configuration file  The default value is the subdirectory htdocs relative to what is named the ServerRoot directory    By default the ServerRoot is the installation directory of Apache  However this can also be redefined into the configuration file  or using the -d option of the command httpd which is used to launch Apache  The value in the configuration file overrides the -d option   The configuration file is by default conf httpd conf relative to ServerRoot  But this can be changed using the -f option of command httpd   When WAMP installs itself  it modify the default configuration file with DocumentRoot c  wamp www   The files to be served need to be located here and not in the htdocs default directory   You may change this location set by WAMP  either by modifying DocumentRoot in the default configuration file  or by using one of the two command line options -f or -d which point explicitly or implicity to a new configuration file which may hold a different value for DocumentRoot  in that case the new file needs to contain this definition  but also the rest of the configuration found in the default configuration file

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If you use Bitnami installer for wampstack  go to   c  Bitnami wampstack-5 6 24-0 apache conf   of course your version number may be different   Open the file  httpd conf in a text editor like Visual Studio code or Notepad     Do a search for  DocumentRoot   See image      You will be able to change the directory in this file

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To check what is your root directory go to httpd conf file of apache and search for  DocumentRoot  The location following it is your root directory

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