Where to save the php and html files on apache

Zepyr · 06-30-2009, 07:35 PM

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

Tinkster · 06-30-2009, 08:06 PM

Hi, welcome to lq!

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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

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

frankbell · 06-30-2009, 10:00 PM

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.

chrism01 · 07-01-2009, 12:49 AM

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/

linuxlover.chaitanya · 07-01-2009, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Zepyr

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

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.

rylan76 · 07-01-2009, 03:16 AM

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