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Files/folders created by cPanel

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  • 12-08-2009 3:31pm
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    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭


    Trying to install an app that ideally expects my site to be managed through cPanel. I'm currently on a dedicated server and just using Webmin. Tech support for the product has (somewhat ambiguously) said that if I have PHP, MySQL, Apache running then I should be OK.

    I'm pointing the app at /var/www/<sitename>, but it keeps telling me that's the wrong folder.

    I'm assuming there's something that cPanel creates when you manage a domain through it, which I'm missing. If I can fake that, I might be able to get the app working. But never having used cPanel, I've no idea what it actually does. Any suggestions?

    (And yes, I have gone back to tech support, but no response yet, and I don't want to waste too much more time on it)


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    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    On my cpanel site the web root is "public_html/www"


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    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    ScumLord wrote: »
    On my cpanel site the web root is "public_html/www"

    Thanks, the help did say "the folder is usually public_html" - maybe it's looking for a www folder within that, I'll see if that works.


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    HandWS LTD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 263 ✭✭HandWS LTD


    thats right. The web root is nearly always "public_html/www". Probably about 98% of the time


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    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    Meh, that didn't work. Created the folders, even chmod'd them to 777, stupid thing still says I have the wrong folder.

    Does cPanel maintain any kind of list of sites anywhere?


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    ScumLord
    Registered Users Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Maybe try just "public_html/" the cpanel file manager says it's "public_html/www" but when I look at the folders using smartftp or the legacy file manager in cpanel it's just "public_html/" with no "www". "www" is a separate folder on the same level as "public_html" with a duplicate of all the contents.


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    HandWS LTD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 263 ✭✭HandWS LTD


    try ScumLord's example. It should work. If not then your folder name is different. I mean either you or your hosting company have added a new folder and called it a different name.

    Log into your cPanel and go to file manager under the files header and your see from the radio button "Web Root (public_html/www)" or so.


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