Should /public or silverstripe install directory be my DocumentRoot?

Questions
1

Version 4.2

As subject. Should Apache be set up as…

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/silverstripe/public

or

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/silverstripe

2

The first one. Set the document root as public

3

That’s what I thought… but the docs don’t say that. Well… not that I could see.

Anyway, thanks for confirming :slight_smile:

4

there is no problem to set it to install folder, as there is a .htaccess in install folder to deal with the situation:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1
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5

Perfectly happy to set it to /public but the install instructions are not explicit on the matter. Thought I’d check.

6

Whilst there’s no problem, there are advantages to running the public webroot, in particular it places the php scripts and template files, etc. out of a publicly accessible location, greatly reducing the opportunity for nefarious operators to find exploits.