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Change Apache document root folder to secondary hard drive

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I installed the ubuntu 12.04 server edition for my server pc . i had installed lamp server. i need to change the var/www location to my secondary hard disk location. i was configured so many time to at gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default here is my code

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost



    #DocumentRoot /var/www

    DocumentRoot /media/myserver/

    <Directory />

        Options FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

    </Directory>

    #<Directory /var/www/>

        <Directory /media/myserver/>

        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

        AllowOverride None

        Order allow,deny

        allow from all

    </Directory>



    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/

    <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">

        AllowOverride None

        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

        Order allow,deny

        Allow from all

    </Directory>



    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log



    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,

    # alert, emerg.

    LogLevel warn



    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined



    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"

    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">

        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

        AllowOverride None

        Order deny,allow

        Deny from all

        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128

    </Directory>



</VirtualHost>

and also used

sudo chown -R var/www /media/myserver/

and

chmod -R 755 /media/myserver/

still i was not able to connect my /media/myserver and my browser show the following message

Forbidden



You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Please tell anyone how to mount myserver at my var/www, thanks advance

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answered 2 Years ago ravturtl · Accepted Answer

You'll have to edit apache2.conf and 000-default.conf to change the document root of apache.

The Apache server is installed on /var/www/html.This is the default root directory of apache.

Either change the root directory of Apache or move the project to /var/www/html.

To change Apache's root directory, run:
```
 cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
```

Then open the 000-default.conf file using the command:
```
 nano 000-default.conf
```

Edit the DocumentRoot option:
```
 DocumentRoot /path/to/my/project
```

Then restart the apache server:
```
 sudo service apache2 restart
```

If you get Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server after changing the root of apache then do follow these steps

Find the apache2.conf located in /etc/apache2 and open it using:
```
 nano apache2.conf
```

Use Ctrl+W and search for Directory (It should be in line 153)

It should look like this

 <Directory />

     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

     AllowOverride All

     Require all denied

 </Directory>

Change it to

 <Directory />

     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI

     AllowOverride All

     Require all granted

 </Directory>

Restart apache
```
 sudo service apache2 restart
```

I made a script that changes apache root in a single command. You can find it on my github.