How do I change the document root of a Linux Apache server?
- by Daryl Spitzer
I'm trying to learn how to configure an Apache HTTP server (with which I have no experience) someone else has setup in a VM running Ubuntu 8.04.
I know the server is running, since I get "<html><body><h1>It works!</h1></body></html>" when I go to http://1.2.3.4/ (where 1.2.3.4 is the VM's IP number).
I found apache2.conf and httpd.conf (among other files) in /etc/apache2/. httpd.conf is empty.
I tried adding DocumentRoot "/home/username/temp" into /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and put some simple HTML in /home/username/temp/index.html. But when I reload http://1.2.3.4/ there's no change.
Do I need to restart httpd to get it to accept the change to DocumentRoot?