URL to Filename Mapping

User directories in a shared environment

Web documents for each user are kept in the user's home directory, in a directory typically named public_html. As an example, for the user jharvard whose home directory is /home/courses/j/h/jharvard

Document Root

The Web documents are typically kept under a single directory, traditionally named htdocs. The full path to this directory is called the "document root" of the Web server, for example, /www/htdocs.