How do I change the root directory of an Apache server

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How can I change the document root of the Apache server  I basically want localhost to come from  users spencer projects directory instead of  var www   I ended up figuring it out  Some suggested I change the httpd conf file  but I ended up finding a file in  etc apache2 sites-available default and changed the root directory from  var www to  home myusername projects folder and that worked

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For Apache 2 on Linux Mint 17 3 Cinnamon 64-bit  the following works   In  etc apache2 sites-available  open the 000-default conf file  and change the Document Root to the absolute path of your directory  sudo vim  etc apache2 sites-available 000-default conf  In folder  etc apache2  open file httpd conf  and add a  lt Directory gt  tag referencing your directory and containing the exact same settings as the tag for var www   sudo vim  etc apache2 apache2 conf  On my machine it looked like this     lt Directory  home my user name php  gt           Options Indexes FollowSymLinks          AllowOverride All          Require all granted   lt  Directory gt     Note  In the first step you probably want to change Document Root in the default-ssl conf file as well for SSL purposes  But as far as I can tell  this isn t required to get a general development environment running

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Applies to Ubuntu 14 04 and later releases  Make sure to backup following files before making any changes   1 Open  etc apache2 apache2 conf and search for  lt Directory  var www  gt  directive and replace path with  home  lt USERNAME gt  public html  You can use   instead of    2 Open  etc apache2 sites-available 000-default conf and replace DocumentRoot value property from  var www html to  home  lt USERNAME gt  public html  Also  lt Directory  var www html gt  to  lt Directory  home  lt USERNAME gt  public html   3 Open  etc mods-available php7 1 conf  Find and comment following code   lt IfModule mod userdir c gt       lt Directory  home   public html gt          php admin flag engine Off      lt  Directory gt   lt  IfModule gt    Do not turn ON php admin flag engine OFF flag as reason is mentioned in comment above Directive code  Also php version can be 5 0  7 0 or anything which you have installed   Create public html directory in home  lt USERNAME gt    Restart apache service by executing command sudo service apache2 restart   Test by running sample script on server

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I was working with LAMP and to change the document root folder  I have edited the default file which is there in the  etc apache2 sites-available folder  If you want to do the same  just edit as follows  DocumentRoot  home username new root folder      lt Directory   gt          Options FollowSymLinks         AllowOverride None      lt  Directory gt       lt Directory  home username new root folder gt          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews         AllowOverride None         Order allow deny         allow from all      lt  Directory gt   After this  if you type  quot localhost quot  in the browser  it will load the  home username new root folder content

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In Apache  version 2 4 18  Ubuntu    Open the file  etc apache2 apache2 conf and search for  lt Directory  var www  gt  and replace to your directory   Open file  etc apache2 sites-available 000-default conf  search for DocumentRoot  var www html and replace it with your DocumentRoot

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In case you are using Ubuntu  16 04  Xenial Xerus   please update the 000-default conf file in the directory  etc apache2 sites-available  Here   ServerAdmin webmaster localhost  DocumentRoot  var www html YourFolder

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If you re using Linux Mint  personal opinion  from all distributions this one is making me happy   follow this   Go to folder  etc apache2 sites-available and edit file 000-default conf  Search for DocumentRoot  example DocumentRoot  var www html  You change to your respective directory  Open a terminal and type  sudo service apache2 restart  In Linux Mint  you go for file  etc apache2 apache conf  Replace  var www with your respective path  and then restart the server  step 3   That s it

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The right way to change directory or run from multiple directories under different port for Apache 2 is as follows  For Apache 2  the configuration files are located under  etc apache2 and doesn   t use a single configuration file as in older versions but is split into smaller configuration files  with  etc apache2 apache2 conf being the main configuration file  To serve files from a different directory we need a new virtualhost conf file  The virtualhost configuration files are located in  etc apache2 sites-available  do not edit files within sites-enabled   The default Apache installation uses virtualhost conf file 000-default conf  Start by creating a new virtualhost file by copying the default virtualhost file used by the default installation of Apache  the one that runs at localhost on port 80   Change into directory  etc apache2 sites-available and then make copy by sudo cp 000-default conf example com conf  now edit the file by sudo gedit example com conf to   lt VirtualHost   80 gt      ServerAdmin example localhost     DocumentRoot  home ubuntu example com  lt  VirtualHost gt   I have deleted the nonimportant lines from the above file for brevity  Here DocumentRoot is the path to the directory from which the website files are to be served such as index html  Create the directory from which you want to serve the files  for example  mkdir example com and change owner and default group of the directory  for example  if your logged in user name is ubuntu change permissions as sudo chown ubuntu www-data example com  This grants full access to the user ubuntu and allows read and execute access to the group www-data  Now edit the Apache configuration file  etc apache2 apache2 conf by issuing command sudo gedit apache2 conf and find the line  lt Directory  var www  gt  and below the closing tag  lt  Directory gt   add the following below   lt Directory  home ubuntu example com gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI     AllowOverride All     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt   Now there are two commands to enable or disable the virtualhost configuration files  which are a2ensite and a2dissite respectively  Now since our example com conf file uses the same port 80  as used by the default configuration file 000-default conf   we have to disable the default configuration file by issuing the command sudo a2dissite 000-default conf and enable our virtualhost configuration file by sudo a2ensite example com conf Now restart or reload the server with command sudo service apache2 restart  Now Apache serves files from directory example com at localhost on default port of 80  The a2ensite command basically creates a symbolic link to the configuration file under the site-enabled directory  Do not edit files within sites-enabled  or  -enabled  directory  as pointed out in this answer  To change the port and run from multiple directories on different ports  Now if you need to run the directory on a different port  change the port number from 80 to 8080 by editing the virtualhost file as   lt VirtualHost   8080 gt      ServerAdmin user localhost     DocumentRoot  home ubuntu work  lt  VirtualHost gt   and editing  etc apache2 ports conf and adding Listen 8080 just below the line Listen 80 Now we can enable the default virtualhost configuration file that runs on port 80 since example com directory uses port 8080  as sudo a2ensite 000-default conf  Now restart or reload the server with command sudo service apache2 restart  Now both the directories can be accessed from localhost and localhost 8080

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You need to change the DocumentRoot setting in your httpd conf file   Chances are it will be under something like  etc apache2 conf httpd conf  Use your favourite editor  I recommend Vim  and look for the DocumentRoot and change it to  users spencer projects  Also look a little further down for a setting that looks like this   lt Directory  quot  var www quot  gt   You will also want to change what is in the quotes to your new directory  This gives Apache access to read from that directory when a user makes a request that call on it  Now restart your Apache service  httpd -k restart  and you should be good to go  Apache 2 site configuration files are now typically kept in  etc apache2 sites-available   Debian  Ubuntu  etc

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Please note  that this only applies for Ubuntu 14 04 LTS and newer releases   In my Ubuntu 14 04 LTS  the document root was set to  var www html  It was configured in the following file     etc apache2 sites-available 000-default conf   So just do a  sudo nano  etc apache2 sites-available 000-default conf   and change the following line to what you want   DocumentRoot  var www html   Also do a   sudo nano  etc apache2 apache2 conf   and find this    lt Directory  var www html  gt  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    and change  var www html to your preferred directory  and save it   After you saved your changes  just restart the apache2 webserver and you ll be done     sudo service apache2 restart    If you prefer a graphical text editor  you can just replace the sudo nano by a gksu gedit

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If someone has installed LAMP in the  opt folder  then the  etc apache2 folder is not what you are looking for  Look for httpd conf file in folder  opt lampp etc  Change the line in this folder and save it from the terminal

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I had to edit  etc apache2 sites-available default  The lines are the same as mentioned by RDL

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In RedHat 7 0   etc httpd conf httpd conf

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I had made the  var www to be a soft link to the required directory  for example   users username projects  and things were fine after that  However  naturally  the original  var www needs to be deleted - or renamed

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If you couldn t find http conf and followed Nick s way  Restart Apache using sudo service apache2 restart

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This is for Ubunutu 14 04  In file  etc apache2 apache2 conf it should be as below without the directory name   lt Directory  home username gt      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride All     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt   And in file  etc apache2 sites-available 000-default conf you should include the custom directory name  i e   www  DocumentRoot  home username www  If it is not as above  it will give you an error when loading the server   Forbidden  You don t have permission to access   on this server

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