docroot

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docroot

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Compound of doc (“document”) + root.

noun docroots

A folder located on a web server which contains all of a website's pages. 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 h
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"docroot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/docroot.

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@misc{docroot_2026,
  title = {docroot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/docroot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}