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Asked: 2026-06-17T23:04:34+00:00

I have an account on some VPS(friend’s apache server with cPanel) and there I

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I have an account on some VPS(friend’s apache server with cPanel) and there I have one public_html directory.
We have in there about 5-6 websites:

/home/myusername/public_html/domain-1.name/index.php
/home/myusername/public_html/domain-2.name/index.php

but I don’t like this way, I’d like to orginise it better and be able to separate and isolate some stuff for each website.
So what if I create like that:

/home/myusername/websites/domain-1.name/public_html/index.php

/home/myusername/websites/domain-2.name/public_html/index.php and so on

Would it be a correct way of structurising web directories?
And would apache work like that?
Perhaps there are out there some other conventions or common workarounds?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is perfectly fine. In fact I’d highly recommend against using the domain folder as the document root as typical web application will also contain data that is not publically accessable (e.g. configuration files, management scripts, version control files, etc.)

    Personally I prefer the name htdocs and I keep my sites under /srv/http

    For example:

    /srv/http/user1/domain1/htdocs/
/srv/http/user1/domain2/htdocs/
/srv/http/user1/domain3/htdocs/
/srv/http/user2/domain4/htdocs/
/srv/http/user3/domain5/htdocs/

    That way you can set the DocumentRoot to the htdocs directory and put other stuff that is not meant to be delivered by the web server in a different sub directory of the domain directory.

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