Docroot
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A folder located on a web server which contains all of a website's pages.
"Another common use of docroots gives people private web sites on a web server. A typical convention maps URIs whose paths begin with a slash and tilde (/~) followed by a username to a private document root for that user. The private docroot is often the folder called public_html inside that user's home directory, but it can be configured differently (Figure 5-10)."
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More examples"Another common use of docroots gives people private web sites on a web server. A typical convention maps URIs whose paths begin with a slash and tilde (/~) followed by a username to a private document root for that user. The private docroot is often the folder called public_html inside that user's home directory, but it can be configured differently (Figure 5-10)."
Etymology
Compound of doc (“document”) + root.
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