Change Root Directory of httpd on Fedora

in here, i using fedora 17.

The default root directory is at /var/www/html. In my case, I want to change it to /home/user/web.

1.  edit file apache configuration you mus as root access

sudo gedit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Find these two lines


DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

<Directory "/var/www/html">

then, change to

DocumentRoot "/home/user/www"

<Directory "/home/user/www">

before edit this file you must create folder as name www or other name.

2. Changing permission

chmod 711 /home/user
chmod -R 755 /home/user/www

and then, configuration as bellow

setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/user/www

apache can access your folder www. you mus configuration access. and now follow this step.

chown root:user /home/user/www

restart your apache:

service restart httpd or systemctl restart httpd.service

create some file on folder www and open in your browser.

good luck and hopefully useful.

sorry, if my english not so good.