## DocumentRoot

Syntax: DocumentRoot directory-filename
Default: `DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/htdocs`
Context: server config, virtual host
Status: core

This directive sets the directory from which httpd will serve files. Unless matched by a directive like Alias, the server appends the path from the requested URL to the document root to make the path to the document. Example:

> `DocumentRoot /usr/web`

then an access to `http://www.my.host.com/index.html` refers to `/usr/web/index.html`.

There appears to be a bug in mod_dir which causes problems when the DocumentRoot has a trailing slash (i.e., "DocumentRoot /usr/web/") so please avoid that.