Change cPanel Document Root

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Recently I needed to change the document root (viz. the public_html folder) of a specific account on a WHM/cPanel server. Here’s how (root access required):

  1. Edit /var/cpanel/userdata/USERNAME/DOMAIN.COM
  2. Change the line documentroot: /home/USERNAME/public_html to reflect your needs
  3. Rebuild the Apache config files by executing /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
  4. Restart the Apache service using service httpd restart

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Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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