## 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

URI | https://cs12students.dce.harvard.edu/~jharvard/index.html
File | /home/courses/j/h/jharvard/public_html/index.html

#### 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.

URI | https://www.unicorns-r-us.com/jobs/index.html
File | /www/unicorns-r-us.com//jobs/index.html