[Laszlo-user] Document root, htdocs, webroot?

[P T Withington]

On 2007-07-13, at 11:53 EDT, Frisco Del Rosario wrote:

> A bit of user documentation said "[foo] is as simple as extracting  
> … zip file into the DocumentRoot, htdocs, or webroot of your  
> webserver". (Just like the OL docs: everything is "as simple as  
> blasm", wrongly assuming that the reader already knows all about  
> blasm.)
>
> In OpenLaszlo world, what is the DocumentRoot, htdocs, or webroot  
> of my webserver?
>
> Is webserver==LPS?

webserver == tomcat or whatever equivalent you are using.  We can't  
be more specific, because each server has a different convention for  
'document root', but it is the place in the file system that  
corresponds to the web address of your site.  For example, in Apache,  
you create a mapping by:

     <VirtualHost *:80>
     DocumentRoot /www/domain
     ServerName www.domain.tld
     ...
     </VirtualHost>

So, when you fetch www.domain.tld/whatever.html, Apache returns the  
contents of /www/domain/whatever.html.  (Modulo any sort of  
rewriting, mapping, etc.)