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AutoSSL & different DocumentRoot

Discussion in 'Security' started by iBotPeaches, Jun 21, 2017.

  1. iBotPeaches

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    Whether by mistake or not. I chose the best route for hosting a variety of applications, by simply dropping include files into `etc/apache2/conf.d/userdata` changing the DocumentRoot for most of my sites.

    When AutoSSL runs, it drops these challenge files into the regular `/home/$user/public_html`. I think I can probably work around this using mod_alias and some additional rules, but before I make things more complicated I'm wondering if there is another option here that would allow AutoSSL to work while maintaining different DocumentRoots.
     
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    Hello,

    The proper method to modify the document root is to update the "documentroot" value in the file corresponding to the domain name in the following directory:

    /var/cpanel/userdata/$username/

    Then, run the following command:

    Code:
    /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
    This should allow AutoSSL to detect the correct document root during the validation process.

    Thank you.
     
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    I would also add that you need to make sure you edit both the $domain.conf and $domain_SSL.conf files. Also, you have to restart Apache.

    This should really be a setting in cPanel. Allow us to put the primary domain in the same folder where the addon and subdomain folders go.
     
    #3 dnavarrojr, Nov 30, 2017
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