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zyydoosh
zyydoosh

Reputation: 379

What is the correct place to put my website files var/www or lampp/htdocs

I faced a "mkdir(): permission denied" problem when creating a new laravel project via composer by composer create-project laravel/laravel lsapp command, so I was looking at this solution. It said to change the group ownership by sudo chown -Rv root:$USER . but he was doing this to cd var/www/, so this make me wondering if he did this because he put his files into /var/www/ so I should execute the command on /opt/lampp/htdocs/ . or I should execute the command on /var/www/ regardless which directory I use to put my files.

And finally what is the usual directory people used to put their laravel project into ?

update:

I try to change the ownership to both directories so now I know that the command executed to your directory, now the question still what is the best place to put my laravel project, and if I choose /var/www/ how can I open it from the browser with /localhost

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1105

Answers (1)

maximus1127
maximus1127

Reputation: 1036

You need to point your apache .conf file to where ever your files are stored. Here is an example:

<VirtualHost *:8000> 
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/myproject/public/"
    ServerName localhost
    <Directory "/var/www/myproject/">
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

This project will be at "localhost:8000"

If your project is not stored in "var/www", then just change those parameters in this block of your conf file in your apache configuration. This can be found in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/myproject.conf (on linux)

Upvotes: 1

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