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What is the real full path to my home directory?

If you need this information for a PHP, CGI or other script, crontab, or shell/ftp prompt, the full path to your home directory is "/" (without the quotes) and the full path to your web documents is "/htdocs/www". The root directory is your home directory.

Read on for a different answer only if you a) need the real full path to your homedir for use with .htaccess/htpasswd files or Server Side Includes; or b) are reading Sbox error messages, which report full paths as described below. If you are NOT doing either, then the full path to your home directory is: /

If you do not have your own domain and you are using a subdomain of modwest.com like "mysite.modwest.com" then the true path to your home directory is:

/www/subdomains/modwest.com/[first letter of yoursite]/[yoursite]/

For example, if we are hosting "mysite" for you (http://mysite.modwest.com or http://www.mysite.modwest.com) then the true full path to your home directory would be:

/www/subdomains/modwest.com/m/mysite/

Remember that your web files are only served from the htdocs/ subdirectory under your home directory.

If you are hosting a 2 level international domain that ends in something like ".co.uk", "co.nz" (or any other one with a 2 part tld) then the true path to your home directory is:

/www/international/[2nd part of tld]/[first letter of your domain]/[yourdomain].[1st part of tld]/

For example, if your domain is yourdomain.co.uk (http://yourdomain.co.uk or http://www.yourdomain.co.uk) then the true full path to your home directory would be:

/www/international/uk/y/yourdomain.co/

Remember that your web files are only served from the htdocs/ subdirectory under your home directory.

Otherwise, if you are hosting a regular domain with us like example.com, example.cc, example.org, example.info, etc, then the path would be:

/www/vhosts/[first letter of domain name]/[fully qualified domain name]

For example, if your domain is example.com (http://example.com or http://www.example.com) then the true full path to your home directory would be:

/www/vhosts/e/example.com/

User-Contributed Notes

10-Jul-2007 22:32

If you run a script from cron, your script may pick up a server
environmental variable of 'HOME' that is set to the full path to your
homedir as Apache sees it. (It has nothing to do with Apache, just that
CronD needs to know the real full path to your home same as Apache does
if it is to do its job right.

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