How to change the location of `web root` folder of

Question

Currently on my Windows 7 machine, it is C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-5.3.8.1\www

I want to point it into another location on drive D, says D:\code

How would I do that?

Answer 1

You need to right click on the icon on the Easyphp icon on the taskbar and select configuration->Apache. This will open httpd.conf in a notepad window.

You need to modify it as follows:

DocumentRoot "D:/code"
(...)
# DocumentRootDirectory 
<Directory "D:\code">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
 </Directory>
 (...)
 NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
 <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
   DocumentRoot "D:/code/"
   ServerName localhost
 </VirtualHost>

Answer 2

Right click the EasyPHP icon, and select Configuration, then Apache. In httpd.conf, do a find for DocumentRoot. My folder is C:\php. Change these two lines:

1. DocumentRoot "C:\php"

2. <Directory "C:\php"> (the first one just below DocumentRoot...)

Once you have changed C:\php to wherever your directory is, right click the EasyPHP icon again and restart.

My apologies, same answer as above. Did not see it until writing this. :-(

Answer 3

Actually, if your apache is using Virtual Hosts, you just have to change the path under the correct "Virtual Host". In my case, it was:

# Virtual Hosts
## Virtualhost localweb
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
#   DocumentRoot "${path}/data/localweb"
    DocumentRoot "D:\Code"
    ServerName 127.0.0.1
#   <Directory "${path}/data/localweb">
    <Directory "D:\Code">
        Options FollowSymLinks Indexes
        AllowOverride All
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from 127.0.0.1
        Deny from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 4

Thanks to @daviddlh 's answer, I have the simple solution for my question.

Open apache configuration file httpd.conf

Replace the default value ${path}/www by the path of our choice, says D:\code

Where does it come from? Look for DocumentRoot in apache config file (i.e. httpd.conf), we will see the below line which link us to ${path}/www

DocumentRoot "${path}/www"