CHANGING DOCUMENT ROOT IN VESTACP WEBSITES

September 24, 2018   /   by Marco  / Categories :  Business
CHANGING DOCUMENT ROOT IN VESTACP WEBSITES

The best way I have found to change the Document Root for specific websites in VestaCP is to create a new Web Template for each domain. I previously edited the document root path in the config file for each for each domain but when NGINX or the server restarted it would revert back to the default: root    /home/admin/web/domain.com/public_html/;

I needed the root path to be this:

root    /home/admin/web/domain.com/public_html/public;

So here are the instructions on how to fix this permanently (I’m using a Virtual Private Server from Chicago VPS rather than a shared server). My VPS setup uses VestaCP with php-fpm and NGINX:

  • Login to your VPS
  • Go to the web templates locate in /usr/local/vesta/data/templates/web/nginx/php-fpm/

Business Legions - Document Root

If you’re using apache then the path is /usr/local/vesta/data/templates/web/httpd and you need to edit the default.tpl and default.stpl files

  • Create two new templates with your domain name in the filename. E.g copy the two wordpress2 templates as follows:
  • cp wordpress2.stpl wordpress2-domainname.stpl
  • cp wordpress2.tpl wordpress2-domainname.tpl
  • NOTE: stpl is the template used for SSL. So if you intend to use SSL make sure you also copy the stpl file.
  • Edit each file and modify the root path
  • vi wordpress2-domainname.stpl
  • Edit the root path and then save the file

Business Legions - Document Root Edit Path

  • In this particular case the default %docroot% variable is set to /home/admin/web/domainname/public_html/ (where domainname is the web domain name)
  • Do the same to vi wordpress2-domainname.tpl
  • Login to your VestaCP dashboard and click on Web – your domain name. In the Web Template (NGINX) select the new template you created:

Business Legions - Document Root Edit Web Template

  • That’s it, the document root for that particular domain will be permanently set to the folder you specified. Hope this helped and if it did please share it or leave me a comment.
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