How to move a cPanel subdomain Document Root to a new location

Posted on: January 29, 2015

If you have a customer that setup a subdomain and they used the default location (/public_html/subdomain/), but they have decided that they want to move that outside of the public_html folder, you need to do the following.

 

  • Open /var/cpanel/userdata/$USERNAME/$SUB.DOMAIN.COM in your favorite text editor
  • Change the path on the “documentroot” line to the path that the customer wants their site to point to.
  • run /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
  • Restart apache.

 

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