document-root

I have a project setup and i'm trying to access a file from a temp folder on the server. The document root for the website is similar to this: /a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/mywebsite.com (of the letters have proper names). The file I need to read lives here: /a/b/c/myfile.txt I've tried symbolic links but may have done them wrong... any ideas? You can create a directory alias: <VirtualHost....> ..... stuff ..... Alias /mydir /a/b/c </VirtualHost> then you could access the text file like so: domain.com/mydir/myfile.txt Note that this needs to take place in the central configuration file, not a .htaccess

Also is the web server root directory the place where you put your site files and later acces them with localhost/file_name in the browser? If you installed WAMP to c:\wamp then I believe your webserver root directory would be c:\wamp\www , however this might vary depending on version. Yes, this is where you would put your site files to access them through a browser. In WAMP the files are served by the Apache component (the A in WAMP). In Apache, by default the files served are located in the subdirectory htdocs of the installation directory. But this can be changed, and is actually changed

I'm making an intranet for a post-sale customer service entreprise. Employee need to be able to upload img files to the intranet's server and i need to store them in a directory with is BEFORE www (the website's root directory). Doing this using php is pretty easy but how to include these imgs on the website once they're uploaded ? I tried this code <img src="../img/img.png"/> This is not working because i can't send a file if it is OUTSIDE the server's www directory ... Is there any proper way to do that ? Current treeview : server root directory |www |(all server files) |img |(all img files)

How can I change my default xampp localhost c:xampp/htdoc to another folder i.e. c:/alan ? When I use the IP address I should be able to view my website file in C:/alan . Thanks for helping me. Edit the httpd.conf file and replace the line DocumentRoot "/home/user/www" to your liked one. The default DocumentRoot path will be different for windows [the above is for linux]. Please follow @Sourav's advice. If after restarting the server you get errors, you may need to set your directory options as well. This is done in the <Directory> tag in httpd.conf. Make sure the final config looks like this: