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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.
Please note, that this only applies for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) 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:
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
And change /var/www/html to your preferred directory and save it.
After you saved your changes, just restart the Apache 2 web server and you'll be done :)
sudo service apache2 restart
If you prefer a graphical text editor, you can just replace the sudo nano with a gksu gedit.
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:
<Directory "/var/www">
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.).
I had to edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. The lines are the same as mentioned by RDL.
This is for Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr):
In file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf it should be as below without the directory name:
<Directory /home/username>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
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
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:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin example#localhost
DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/example.com
</VirtualHost>
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 <Directory /var/www/> and below the closing tag </Directory>, add the following below:
<Directory /home/ubuntu/example.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
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:
<VirtualHost *:8080>
ServerAdmin user#localhost
DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/work
</VirtualHost>
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.
If you couldn't find http.conf and followed Nick's way.
Restart Apache using sudo service apache2 restart.
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
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/username/new_root_folder>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
After this, if you type "localhost" in the browser, it will load the /home/username/new_root_folder content.
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 <Directory> 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:
<Directory /home/my_user_name/php/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
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.
In Apache version 2.4.18 (Ubuntu).
Open the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and
search for <Directory /var/www/> 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.
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
The following applies to Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) and later releases. Make sure to back up following files before making any changes.
Open /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and search for <Directory /var/www/> directive and replace path with /home/<USERNAME>/public_html. You can use * instead of .
Open /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf and change the DocumentRoot value property from /var/www/html to /home/<USERNAME>/public_html. Also <Directory /var/www/html> to <Directory /home/<USERNAME>/public_html.
Open /etc/mods-available/php7.1.conf. Find and comment the following code
php_admin_flag engine Off
Do not turn the php_admin_flag engine OFF flag on as the reason is mentioned in a comment above the Directive code. Also the PHP version can be 5.0, 7.0 or anything you have installed.
Create public_html directory in home/<USERNAME>.
Restart the Apache service by executing command sudo service apache2 restart.
Test by running a sample script on the server.
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.
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.
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.
In Red Hat Linux 7.0: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
i have 2 or more subfolders in my website. And i need to give read-only permission to all my sub-folder for protect from hacking.
Is there any way to do this?
chmod -R 777 where -R makes it recursive, so all underlying files of that folder will be set to the same permission, 777 in my example.
you need to do chown -R www-data:www-data your-directory-here
(here, www-data is the default apache username under debian 7)
and then chmod 711 your-directory-here.
But there's no way to set permissions using .htacces, it's all or nothing with .htaccess, but the web user is considered as apache, so www-data.
If you don't want users to acces to your directory on apache, simply edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default and edit this:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
like this:
<Directory />
Options -FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
Options -Indexes Disallows users to view your directory indexes
Options -FollowSymLinks Disallow apache to follow Symbolic links (don't edit this one if you need apache to follow some symbolic links).
btw, apache folders can't be edited from web client, you need a ssh access for that.
If you're using FileZilla or a similar FTP client you can right click on anything then use the UI to select permissions regarding every aspect of the file.
I got my new VPS server with CentOS 5.8, I could not transfer my domain yet but I want to reach my site via http://my-server-ip and since I am using laravel framework I need to change default DocumentRoot httpdocs to httpdocs/public I have tried to put those lines to httpd.conf file:
<VirtualHost my-server-ip:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/my.domain.org/httpdocs/public
ServerName my.domain.org
</VirtualHost>
However after restarting apache it warns me like this:
Warning: DocumentRoot [/public] does not exist
What should I do?
You'll need to enable read (and possibly execute) privileges on the directory. As root try:
# Recursively set the owner of this folder to 'www'
chown -R www /var/www/vhosts/my.domain.org/httpdocs/public
# Recursively give the owner read and execute privileges
chmod -R u+rx /var/www/vhosts/my.domain.org/httpdocs/public
As an alternative on some setups the user might be called nobody. So if www doesn't work try:
chown -R nobody /var/www/vhosts/my.domain.org/httpdocs/public
EDIT:
As user tink pointed out in the comments
"...in Centos the user running apache is aptly called apache. In debian and it's derivatives, it's www-data."
might be that the apache user can't get into the new directory. try
chmod a+r /var/www/vhosts/my.domain.org/httpdocs/public
I had the same "403 page" problem. Just after I changed Document Root in my /etc/apache2/conf-available/sitename.conf from /var/www/html to /data/www.
To solve the problem I did the folowing:
1) Utilized chown and chmod examples, provided by Mike (2 posts above). Many thanks to him;
2) Added 2 lines to the end of /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/web-data as follows:
/data/www/ r,
/data/www/** r,
and then run:
sudo service apparmor reload
3) I also needed to add the following bit of code to my apache.conf:
<Directory /data/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
May be some actions were superfluous, but It worked pretty nice for me (Apache v2.4.7, Ubuntu 14.04.1)
I'm running the latest Apache Server on Linux Mint 14 and trying to take my first babysteps with vhosts, where I encountered a general problem with my setup:
every option I declare in the <Directory> section doesn't seem to have any effect on any subdirectories - but as far as I know and according to the documentation it should.
For example: I'm trying to give permissions for .htaccess file by
<Directory /var/www/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
a .htaccess in /var/www would work properly, but e.g. a .htaccess in /var/www/test with contents "Deny from all" would take no effect.
Are there any options I have to set that I don't know of? This isn't my first apache setup so I'm kind of confused right now, but I can't find a solution.
Thank you in advance!
Got it, apache2.conf includes external vhost settings, so the default settings in sites-available/default kept overwriting mine.
I have a VPS for hosting sites and I'm trying to get Apache to follow symlinks but cannot figure it out. I've Googled for the past couple hours and everything seems really confusing. I don't know anything about htaccess mod_rewrite engine so that's not available.
Basically, I have a resources folder that's not in the root directory of one of the sites, it's inside another directory but I'd like a symlink in the root so that it appears to be both in the root directory AND in that other directory.
So the original is /sub/resources
and I want a symlink /resources to link to /sub/resources
Everything I try I get an Apache permission denied error. I'm creating the symlink with the root user using ln -s and setting permissions of the symlink to 755.
I've tried adding Options +FollowSymlinks to my root .htaccess file.
Also tried going to the httpd.conf file and ensuring it has
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride Indexes
</Directory>
Very frustrating. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Scott