Which one is my real webroot?

[kramer65]

Hello,

With the help of this guide I built an Ubuntu server. With ISPConfig I then created a website (test.nl) to which I uploaded some files using ftp.

Since I want to log all changes to the website files, I want to create a Mercurial repository in the website root. So with ssh I logged into the server and looked around. I can't find out however, what the correct web-root of my website is. I see two folders which contain the files of my website:

• /var/www/test.nl/web/
• /var/www/clients/client0/test.nl/web/

When I upload or change anything using ftp, the file appears in both these folders, so I am kind of puzzled as to which of these two is the right one.

Could anyone shed some light on this issue? All tips are welcome!

[till]

/var/www/test.nl/web/
/var/www/clients/client0/test.nl/web/

neither of these two.

/var/www/test.nl is a symlink for easier shell navigation which points to /var/www/clients/client0/web1
and /var/www/clients/client0/test.nl is asymlink to which points to /var/www/clients/client0/web1

So the real directory of your site is /var/www/clients/client0/web1/web/ which you can see on the options tab of the website settings in ispconfig.

[kramer65]

Hi Till. Thank you for this explanation. That makes things clear.

Just two more questions:
[q]which you can see on the options tab of the website settings in ispconfig. [/q]
I can't find the thing you describe here. I went to the Websites-tab and clicked my domain. I then get a couple tabs: Domain, Redirect, SSL, Statistics, but no "website settings" or "options tab". In the menu on the left I can also not find either of these two. Although I have found the web-root from the command line, could you maybe give a little tip more on where to find this info in the ISPConfig panel?

And about the location of the web-root; Is this web-root location normal behaviour for a server, or is this only the way the ISPConfig panel sets things up?

[till]

Just two more questions:
[q]which you can see on the options tab of the website settings in ispconfig. [/q]
I can't find the thing you describe here. I went to the Websites-tab and clicked my domain. I then get a couple tabs: Domain, Redirect, SSL, Statistics, but no "website settings" or "options tab". In the menu on the left I can also not find either of these two. Although I have found the web-root from the command line, could you maybe give a little tip more on where to find this info in the ISPConfig panel?

Login as admin user into ispconfig, not client. You find the directory as part of the open_basedir in ispconfig and also on the options atb of the ftp user of the site.

And about the location of the web-root; Is this web-root location normal behaviour for a server, or is this only the way the ISPConfig panel sets things up?

Thats the way ispconfig sets up sites. There is no such thing as a normal behaviour as every controlpanel uses its own structure and thats the structure ispconfig uses as it prevents that sites break when you change the domain name of the site.

[kramer65]

Login as admin user into ispconfig, not client. You find the directory as part of the open_basedir in ispconfig and also on the options atb of the ftp user of the site.

Ah, I see. Thanks, I forgot I was logged in as a user.

Thats the way ispconfig sets up sites. There is no such thing as a normal behaviour as every controlpanel uses its own structure and thats the structure ispconfig uses as it prevents that sites break when you change the domain name of the site.

I see. I am pretty new to the back-end of server setups (I've just been using cpanel and Direct Admin). This is the first time I installed a server using ssh and installing a control panel myself.

Thanks a lot for all the information!

[tom123]

Is possibile to safely remove both symlink or are they used by other software/scripts?

We don't like to have many path pointing to the same dir, it's making confusion.

If the real docroot is /var/www/clients/client0/web1/web/, we would like to have only that path or at least /var/www/clients/client0/test.nl/web/

Is "client0" a fixed string (client) followed by MySQL autoincrement id associated to that client? If yes, should be possibile to change this with a random number/string ?

[falko]

Originally Posted by tom123

Is possibile to safely remove both symlink or are they used by other software/scripts?

Don't do this. For example, both paths are used in the Apache configuration, and if one paths doesn't exist, Apache possibly won't start anymore.

[tom123]

Is not possibile to configure ISPConfig to not use these address?

[till]

Is not possibile to configure ISPConfig to not use these address?

You can disable some of them under System > Server config. Just ensure that the /var/www/domain.tld symlink is always created beside the real directory.