Name

DocumentRoot

Synopsis

DocumentRoot directory_path

Description

[server config or within <VirtualHost>]

Specifies the root of the server document tree. For example:

DocumentRoot /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/

This specifies that HTML documents for this server will reside in the given directory and its subdirectories. The default is:

DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs/

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