I need “/var/www” but Apache2 try to use an empty “/var/www/html”

Question

This days I sleep with my http://localhost working, and reading pages from /var/www...

I woke up with an "AH00094" error at Apache2

Answer 1

See here:

Why has the apache2 www dir been moved to /var/www/html?

The default directory apparently (we were also surprised) moved from /var/www to /var/www/html for htdocs in Debian, and Ubuntu copied this change. The reasons given are somewhat sound, but the upgrade path is probably “interesting” (as in the Chinese proverb)… as you have encountered.

Answer 2

If you want to use /www as root folder instead of /www/html you can simply edit the apache2 config file to have /var/www

Edit 000-default.conf

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

then change

DocumentRoot /var/www/html 

to

DocumentRoot /var/www

Restart apache2 server :

sudo service apache2 restart