Question
What is the correct folder to put my website files, var/www or var/www/html?
- Posted on November 7, 2014
Asked by lauramoreno1436
I have two droplets active, in both of theme I have wordpress installed.
In one of them I follow this tutorial to instal LAMP and WordPress. This tutorial says: " …The location of the document root in the Ubuntu 14.04 LAMP guide is /var/www/html/. We can transfer our WordPress files there by typing:…" So I have my wordpress files under var/www/html
But in the other droplet I follow this other tutorial to install wordpress through one click WordPress install, and this installed wordpress files on var/www.
I have read on google that on ubuntu 14.04 the root directory have been moved from var/www to var/www/html. Is digital ocean wordpress one click install adding files on incorrect directory? I should move my files from var/www to var/www/htmll?
Thanks in advance!
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The One-Click Wordpress installs Wordpress in
/var/wwwand setsDocumentRootto/var/wwwinstead of/var/www/html(see/etc/apache2/apache2.conf– the virtual host should be at the very bottom of the file), so you should store your files in/var/www.