Access htdocs root folder from another drive than installation drive in lampp/xampp in linux

To change the document root folder in lampp you need to edit /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf

do as follow code

# old line: DocumentRoot "/opt/lampp/htdocs"
DocumentRoot "/home/me/Dropbox/public_html"

#...etc...

# old line:

#
# Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
# or any combination of:
#   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
# etc...


and restart your lampp/xampp

incase if it will not work then you can do one more thing

Open /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf change nobody and nogroup



#
# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
# httpd as root initially and it will switch.
#
# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
# It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for
# running httpd, as with most system services.
#
User nobody
Group nogroup

to your username and your group

posted by honeyonsys