Find Apache Document Root in Ubuntu Linux

Sometimes you may need to find Document Root Folder for Apache web server. If you are wondering “where is the root directory of your website” or “where is the document root in Apache”, then here’s how to find Apache Document Root. You can use these steps to find Apache document root directory in Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Redhat Linux systems.

Find Apache Document Root

Here are the steps to find Apache Document Root in Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, Redhat Linux systems. Apache Document Root is specified in Apache server configuration files and we will use grep command to find Apache root directory location.

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Find Apache Document Root in Ubuntu/Debian

Open terminal and run the following command to find Document Root location.

$ grep -i 'DocumentRoot' /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html
$ grep -i 'DocumentRoot' /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html

If you have multiple websites (e.g site1, site2, site3) on same Apache server and want to list all Document Roots, just run the following command instead:

$ grep -i 'DocumentRoot' /etc/apache2/sites-available/*.conf
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf:  DocumentRoot /var/www/html
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site1.conf: DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site1/
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site2.conf: DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2/ 
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site3.conf: DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site3/ 
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf: DocumentRoot /var/www/html

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Find Apache Document Root in CentOS/Redhat/Fedora

Open terminal and run the following command to find Document Root location.

$ grep -i 'DocumentRoot' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html
$ grep -i 'DocumentRoot' /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
     DocumentRoot /var/www/html

If you have multiple websites (e.g site1, site2, site3) on same Apache server and want to list all Document Roots, just run the following command instead:

$ grep -i 'DocumentRoot' /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf
OR
$ grep -i 'DocumentRoot' /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf:  DocumentRoot /var/www/html
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site1.conf: DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site1/
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site2.conf: DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2/ 
/etc/apache2/sites-available/site3.conf: DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site3/ 
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl.conf: DocumentRoot /var/www/html

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That’s it! Now you can easily find Apache Document Root for your websites.

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