Am i correct in understanding, a web-root is any directory reachable by a browser on the internet? Is web-root an standard term? I cannot find any definitions for it.

Thank you for answering. Before posting my question, I googled apache web-root. I did not find an authoritative clear cut definition. I searched the apache configuration files on my Debian server, and found no matches for the term “web-root.” I installed Grav in two locations, one in the home direc…

Gr2 referring to attached image… No sign yet of trouble running Grav in a subdirectory of a domain,. that is why I started wondering if Grav needs to be the root of a domain.

Grav can be anywhere. As far as Grav is concerned, when it talks about the root, it talks about where it’s installed (from where you’d type bin/grav whatever. As far as everyone else is concerned, it just needs to be somewhere people can get at it.

What is a web-root?

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Muut September 16, 2016, 4:38pm 2

If you Google “apache webroot” you’ll get closer. It’s the root of the folder structure that is publicly visible to the web server.

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What is a web-root?

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