Etymology

Compound of doc (“document”) +‎ rootCategory:English compound terms#DOCROOT.

Noun

docroot (plural docroots)Category:English lemmas#DOCROOTCategory:English nouns#DOCROOTCategory:English countable nouns#DOCROOTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOCROOTCategory:Pages with entries#DOCROOTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DOCROOT

1. (web developmentCategory:en:Programming#DOCROOTCategory:en:Web design#DOCROOT) A folder located on a web server which contains all of a website's pages.

   Synonym: webroot

   • 2002, David Gourley, Brian Totty, HTTP: The Definitive Guide, Beijing; Sebastopol, C.A.: O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 122:

     Another common use of docroots gives people private web sites on a web server. A typical convention maps URIs whose paths begin with a slash and tilde (/~) followed by a username to a private document root for that user. The private docroot is often the folder called public_html inside that user's home directory, but it can be configured differently (Figure 5-10).

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