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Subdomain DocumentRoot

AlexanderPolizu

New Pleskian
Hi Guys,

It's possible to change the subdomain DocumentRoot to an existing document outside of his home directory? For example I want to change the docroot for the test.sstest.com to a directory owned by the primary domain sstest.com

/var/www/vhosts/test.sstest.com/httpdocs/ to /var/www/vhosts/sstest.com/httpdocs/somethingelse.

Thank you.
 
I've made the changes and now it's trying to download a file when accessing the website

# cat /var/www/vhosts/sstest.test.com/conf/vhost.conf
DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/test.com/httpdocs/payment
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/test.com/httpdocs/payment>
<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
php_admin_flag engine on
php_admin_flag safe_mode off
php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/test.com/httpdocs:/tmp"
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_admin_flag engine on
php_admin_flag safe_mode off
php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/vhosts/test.com/httpdocs:/tmp"
</IfModule>
Options -Includes -ExecCGI
</Directory>

Do you know why it goes for a download instead of showing the webpage?

Thank you for the link, Igor. I will continue to investigate.
 
Just enable php for that subdomain name through the control panel it self -> websites and domains -> click on the domain ->
 
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