how to configuring a xampp web server for different root directory

Question

The web directory is the home of all of your application\'s public and static files. Including images, stylesheets and JavaScript files. It is also where the front controlle

Answer 1

You can change Apaches httpd.conf by clicking (in xampp control panel) apache/conf/httpd.conf and adjust the entries for DocumentRoot and the corresponding Directory entry. Just Ctrl+F for "htdocs" and change the entries to your new path.

See screenshot:

#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"