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docroot en · NOUN

Etymology

Compound of doc (“document”) + root.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:web development) A folder located on a web server which contains all of a website's pages.
   • Another common use of docroots gives people private web sites on a web server. A typical convention maps URIs whose paths begin with a slash and tilde (/~) followed by a username to a private document root for that user. The private docroot is often the folder called public_html inside that user's home directory, but it can be configured differently (Figure 5-10). 2002, David Gourley, Brian Totty, HTTP: The Definitive Guide, Beijing; Sebastopol, C.A.: O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 122:

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Synonyms

webroot