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Stephen
Stephen

Reputation: 2540

What does the webroot refer to?

So, I've looked around quite a few questions around Stack Overflow and many of them mention the "webroot" - when looking for a specific definition of it, though, I've been unable to find one. Does the webroot refer to the very base file (as in "App:) in my structural example below. Or does it refer to where the file you are talking about relatively? I.e. if I was talking about balance.php would it refer to view? 

app
--Protected
______view
__________balance.php
----------level.php

Upvotes: 2

Views: 905

Answers (2)

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360702

Generally, the webroot, aka document root, is where "publicly accessible" files start in a website.

E.g. your site has a file, and url pointing at that file:

 /home/sites/example.com/html/private/downloads/cutekittens.jpg
           http://example.com/private/downloads/cutekittens.jpg
                             ^---where the document root starts

Note where the two start corresponding. Everything "above" that point (/home/site/example.com/html) is OUTSIDE of the site's document root. Anything inside that .../html directory is inside the document root, and therefore accessible by browser from outside the server.

Note that this doesn't take into consideration any server-side aliases, rewriting, routing, etc...

Upvotes: 4

MattRogowski
MattRogowski

Reputation: 866

It will be the base directory where web-accessible files go, usually called public_html, httpdocs, htdocs or wwwroot.

Upvotes: 0

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