Where to save the php and html files on apache
 

Okay I am new to linux and have been learning php. anyway I just installed the apache server and the php extensions but I have no Idea where to save the files that I create so I can run them through the server.


Thank you,
Zepyr

Hi, welcome to lq!
Wherever the servers document root is. And that will be in your apache configuration;
the name and location of which will depend on the distro you've chosen....


Cheers,
Tink

In most apache installations, the default location for your website files is the htdocs subdirectory.

I use the Xampp stack, and the files that are visible over the web go in /opt/lampp/htdocs.

You can change this, but there's no good reason to.

We need to know which Linux distro & version you've got.
However, if you look in the Apache httpd.conf, the DocumentRoot directive is normally where you would start.
See the docs here for more info: http://httpd.apache.org/

That depends on the distribution you are using. If you are putting up your server on RH or Fedora based distros then you might want to put it in /var/www/html by default. But that is by default. You can change the apache configuration.
For Ubuntu based systems that could be /var/www. Again that depends on the apache configuration. You can change that and make your php files reside where you want them to.

Did you use a package manager to get apache, or did you compile it yourself?

IME, for example, compiling Apache 2.0.54 yourself with a standard configuration and installing it will make the htdocs folder be in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs