How to move www directory to home?

Question

I've recently installed Lamp in my fresh 12.04 installation. I want to know if I can move my www directory to home so I can syncronize it with Ubuntu One, or is there any way to syncronize www directory with dropbox or some other application. I just want to keep that directory syncronized with the cloud storage so I never lose the data.

Thanks in advance. :-)

Answer 1

The solution provided in this answer is yet effective for your needs even in Ubuntu 12.04.

Placed here for your convenience.

You can change your default folder for www content by editing the information provided inside the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file. By dropping sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and changing any occurrence of the /var/www or (maybe your case) /var/www/html and setting the folder that you wish to use.

The contents of the file will look like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

  DocumentRoot /home/geppettvs/www
  <Directory />
      Options FollowSymLinks
      AllowOverride None
  </Directory>
  <Directory /home/geppettvs/www/>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
      AllowOverride None
      Order allow,deny
      allow from all
  </Directory>

  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
  <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
      AllowOverride None
      Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
  </Directory>

  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

  # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
  # alert, emerg.
  LogLevel warn

  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
        Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

In this case I am using my /home/geppettvs/www folder in order to place the files that will be exposed to the public via http connections (port 80).

Give this a try. I hope this help you.

However, I suggest you to run a search before opening a new question. Your question may be closed as du

Good luck!