DocumentRoot directive

Purpose

If you need to serve files outside this directory, you can use the Alias directive, or create symbolic links.

This directive affects how you access files on your server.

Syntax

Where dir is an absolute path of the directory you want documents to be served from.

Only one DocumentRoot directive is allowed in the server configuration file.

Default

DocumentRoot /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs

Example

This would set DocumentRoot to the directory /home/web.

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