how to move the document root

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how to move the document root

Postby carsten888 » 16. December 2018 09:13

from C:/xxamp/htdocs
to
C:/_websites/

I tried edditting httpd.conf on 2 places:
DocumentRoot "E:/_websites"
<Directory "E:/_websites">

but then when restarting it wont run.
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby Altrea » 16. December 2018 09:50

What type of drive is e? HDD? USB? network share?
How about some log outputs?
Please start here reading carefully: [Q&A] Insufficient debug information - Apache starting issue
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby carsten888 » 16. December 2018 14:00

my laptop got 2 ssd-s. Windows and apps are on C:, docs and website files and database (and everything else which need backupping regularly) is on D:.
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby Altrea » 16. December 2018 14:08

Why do you configure drive letter e?
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby carsten888 » 16. December 2018 14:10

oops. Turns out I made a typo in httpd.conf. I corrected it and now it does not stop working, but does not display the new default pafe when I go to 'localhost'. Just the default http://localhost/dashboard/

What am I overlooking here?
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby carsten888 » 16. December 2018 14:11

Altrea wrote:Why do you configure drive letter e?

that was a typo. Its D, not E. sorry about the confusion.
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby carsten888 » 16. December 2018 14:30

I don't know why but after 5 or so restarts it started working.
thanks.
solved
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby kasemo » 18. December 2018 23:32

FYI - something I do locally is build symbolic links, dump them in my directory. For a localhost XAMPP (non-public-facing), it's perfectly fine.

Yes, you read that right. Symbolic links on Windows. It supports them.

I wouldn't do this if your system were facing outwards:

mklink /D your_dir_name_in_webroot c:\wherever\you\want\

So technically - you can delete your htdocs, then do this:

cd c:\xampp
mklink /D htdocs C:/_websites/

And now you have a symbolic link to that new webroot.
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby Altrea » 19. December 2018 00:06

What is the point of using symlinks for DocumentRoot?
I don't see any advantages.
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby kasemo » 08. January 2019 22:42

Laziness.

Access to directories outside the serverroot without the need for alternate config / setting up perms / etc.
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Re: how to move the document root

Postby Nobbie » 11. January 2019 20:42

kasemo wrote:Laziness.

Access to directories outside the serverroot without the need for alternate config / setting up perms / etc.


is it really so incredibly much more work to enter the "alias folder" in a file than the command "mklink folder" in a terminal? Doesn't really sound very credible....
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