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Asked: 2026-05-26T09:24:30+00:00

I have just started trying to learn Git and I have got a little

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I have just started trying to learn Git and I have got a little stuck. We are using Github to hold our “stable” project but I am having trouble working with the repo.

I want to know if its possible to use a local webservers htdocs/[projectname] as the working directory – this way I could clone the repo from github, work on it on the local server ( so it works as the application should allowing me to test everything i write properly ) and then stage -> commit from there.

I am working on a Mac using the MAMP environment. The application is a PHP based CMS. We are holding it on Github on a private repository. Currently Git seems to be using /Users/Ben/Core-CMS as the working dir but this makes it very hard to test things out – it would be much better if the working dir was inside the apache htdocs dir

I bought Pro Git but I am having a very hard time learning the concepts of git – I have purposely avoided using the GUI’s as I wish to learn the inner workings of Git properly before I start ‘cheating’!

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you have the permission to write in the htdocs dir, just move /Users/Ben/Core-CMS to htdocs/Core-CMS and access it at http://localhost/Core-CMS.

    If you cannot write in the htdocs dir, I’d create /Users/Ben/web, put my projects in there and tell apache to serve from there. To tell apache to look in /Users/Ben/web to serve your projects, look for the following line in your apache conf:

    DocumentRoot /path/to/htdocs

    and replace it with:

    DodumentRoot /Users/Ben/web
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