Root directory of web server

Question

What is the root directory of Apache Web Server?

I am using Windows XP. My Apache server is installed at:

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\

I want to host a server and its manual says:

move all files and subdirectories from that directory to the root directory of the web server

Answer 1

It depends on how you've configured the server. The 'root directory' is actually called the document root, which is the directory from which the Apache HTTP server would serve files from. It can be changed using the DocumentRoot directive, which you should be able to find inside the configuration file(s) (e.g. /etc/apache2/apache2.conf).

From the documentation:

For example, if DocumentRoot were set to /var/www/html then a request for http://www.example.com/fish/guppies.html would result in the file /var/www/html/fish/guppies.html being served to the requesting client.