Change document root of Cpanel account that is not the main domain

[Jilco]

Hello world, I want to change the document root of my testing enviroment. I followed this steps (How to Change the documentroot in WHM/cPanel), but it is not replying. The content keeps loaded from the old root.

http://185.56.144.149/~jilco01/ points to /home/jilco01/public_html/ and needs to point to /home/jilco01/public_html/pub/

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! I believe you'd be better off changing your local hosts file, as the IP/~username may not always follow everything setup on the machine. Can you try this instead to see if that gives you better results?

Tutorial - Editing your local hosts file to preview sites

How to edit your local hosts file to test websites For a long time now Apache's mod_userdir has been the preferred way to check if sites are working properly on a machine without DNS being configured. This allows users to confirm a site is...

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[Jilco]

Because it is a cloudserver with WHM/Cpanel it is not possible what is in your answer...

 

[cPRex]

The changes outlined in that document are made on the local computer, and aren't related to the server. It's just to tell your local machine that the DNS for the domain is somewhere custom from what the public DNS shows.

 

[Jilco]

Okay, but what will it solve? The document root wil stayvthe same..

 

[cPRex]

Yes, but instead of visiting with IP/~username you would just be able to visit domain.com, and then Apache would handle the document root properly.

If you check the Apache configuration manually at /etc/apache2/conf/http.conf, do you see the document root has been updated there?

 

[Jilco]

I will trie tommorrow, thanks in advance. Please be aware that the normal IP (without jilco01) point to the main domain that not needs to change

 

[cPRex]

That's correct - that work doesn't change the IP address of the domain, but just tricks your local machine into thinking the domain uses a different IP for short-term testing.

 

[Jilco]

Unfortunatly not working, i get error DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

 

[Jilco]

According to this article it is not possible

What is the path to my root directory? How to change it?

I could not find the path to my root directory. And how to change it

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[cPRex]

While we don't support changing it for newly-created accounts, you can use the details in the article here to manually change the docroot:

How to change the document root for a cPanel account

Introduction While there are tools in cPanel that will allow you to change the document root for an addon domain, making this change for the main cPanel account is a bit more involved and requires ...

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It just isn't something that can be done through WHM as we don't encourage those types of changes.