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Hesbe Reygan
Hesbe Reygan

Reputation: 73

Where do I find DocumentRoot on Ubuntu after installing PHP, MySQL and Apache2?

I am new to Ubuntu Linux (version 13.10). I am following this tutorial to install MySQL, PHP, and Apache2.

It installed successfully, but I don't know where to write PHP files that execute when you navigate to the URL localhost/example.php.

I am looking at this link, but I am afraid that maybe it will not work and have to reinstall Ubuntu again.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 19299

Answers (4)

Spudneck Dan
Spudneck Dan

Reputation: 41

In vscode (I'm sure in other editors as well) you can right click the file and copy path and copy relative path.

http://127.0.0.1:8000/site.php

Works for me.

Upvotes: 0

Hastur
Hastur

Reputation: 2828

In a newer version should be in a different path: /var/www/html

With a series of commands you can find:

 ls /etc/apache2/sites-available/

That answers with something like

 000-default.conf  default-ssl.conf

In this case you need the second file default-ssl.conf; with 

 grep -n -e "DocumentRoot"  /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf

you can obtain:

 5:              DocumentRoot /var/www/html

That means you can find (and change) DocumentRoot definition in the 5-th lines of the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf.

Upvotes: 16

Stefano Sanfilippo
Stefano Sanfilippo

Reputation: 33056

The default location of document root is /var/www. This, assuming you haven't touched the HTTPd configuration.

By the way, if you simply need a development server for PHP scripts, you can use the one emebedded in PHP > 5.4. Just cd to the project directory and launch:

php -S localhost:8008

Upvotes: 2

Johannes H.
Johannes H.

Reputation: 6167

As a simple Google search would have showed you, it's (by default), /var/www/.
In the Ubuntu default config, that is defined in the default virtual host, the config file for that is /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Upvotes: 3

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