How to Change the www root directory on WampServer

Question

My need is to change the default sites directory of wamp from say "c:\wamp\www" to say "d:\sites". Right now my projects in "d:\sites" do not show in the project list:

I found a few past answers like this one and this one which I think are not applicable to WampServer 2.5 (anyway, it did not work for me).

I also found this procedure in the documentation, but it seems far too complex for what I need.

Any help on this matter would be appreciated.

Answer 1

1. Search the httpd.conf file

2. Change the DocumentRoot and Path with the one that you want:

3. Search the httpd-vhosts.conf file

4. Change the DocumentRoot and Path with the one that you want:

5. Restart All services

Answer 2

The thing you wanna do is little bit tricky.To do the thing you want just follow following steps:

1 Open file C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache*.*.*\conf\httpd.conf

2 Find following lines :

DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
<Directory "c:/wamp/www">

3 Modify them to change your root directory /*In my case i want my "C:\" drive as root*/ so i do this :

DocumentRoot "c:/"
<Directory "c:/">

4 Now go to c:\wamp\www find index.php and copy it,and pest into your new root /*In my case i want my "C:\" drive as root*/

5 Now open that index.php and find the following lines:

$wampConfFile = '../wampmanager.conf';
$aliasDir = '../alias/';

6 Now just modify them relative to your root /*In my case i want my "C:\" drive as root*/ so i write:

$wampConfFile = './wamp/wampmanager.conf';
$aliasDir = './wamp/alias/';

Now it will show the default wamp opening page which is shown in the picture!

Answer 3

Edit the path in below file then restart wamp server C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\httpd.conf

Answer 4

1. Go to apache httpd

   C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.22\conf

2. Open httpd

3. Find DocumentRoot in that file

4. Change the path

5. Find the directory tag

6. Change to Allow from all from Deny from all in Directory tag

   <Directory />
     Options FollowSymLinks
     AllowOverride None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Directory>
   

7. Save & exit

8. Restart wamp services

Answer 5

In newer version of wamp, changing DocumentRoot in httpd.conf did not change DOCUMENT_ROOT. Even after restarting, it stayed as "c:/wamp64/www/".

Instead, the DocumentRoot is set in this file:

  c:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.18\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

To change the localhost directory, change these to your path:

      DocumentRoot c:/www
      <Directory  "c:/www/">