where is the root directory of website?

[song19891121]

there is a problem. I was told to put a file in the website's root directory. What should I do?put the file where? /src ?

[EisFrei]

Depends on what you want.
If you want the file to be downloadable you can place it in public/

[song19891121]

@EisFrei Thanks! the problem was solved.

[fais3000]

I know a lot has been changed since this topic has been posted. I am in need of placing a file specifically ads.txt on the root of the forum (as advised by google adsense to stay compliant).

However all i am able to do is to get it up like example.com/assets/ads.txt by placing it in the public directory.

Any one knows how can it be served at example.com/ads.txt?

[PitaJ]

@fais3000 you can use your reverse proxy to serve the file.

[fais3000]

Anyone facing the same issue. Here is how i served the file via nginx

location /ads.txt { 
    root /var/www/nodebb/public/; 
}

[evgensharyy]

@fais3000 Thank you! It work for me!

[FrankM]

@fais3000 said in where is the root directory of website?:

location /ads.txt {
root /var/www/nodebb/public/;
}

Thank you very much!

[gotwf]

I have been a bit curious about this as well. Not an nginx guru so please bear with me here.

• For simplicity sake let's assume site lives at forums.example.com rather than a example.com/forums subfolder.

• Unless specified otherwise, nginx root dir is /usr/share/nginx/html

• Nodebb nginx configuration docs utilize this when describing setting up a custom error page

• Nginx is being used exclusively as reverse proxy and not serving any additional sites. I think I read somewhere that under such configuration an explicit default server docroot should not be specified? But even in such cases I think the hard coded default /usr/share/nginx/html still serves up 50x.html error page.

• In absence of a custom error page, nodebb uses nodebb/public/503.html?

• Nginx has been configured for scaling.

• Nginx Pitfalls and Common Mistakes documentation suggest putting doc root inside a location block is bad practice even though it will work.

Soo... now my question... taking all of above into consideration.. what is proper/correct best practice, eh?

P.S.; Maybe should have started a new thread proper under Technical Support. Please feel free to fork.

[Zahid Asim]

@fais3000
Error 502 Ray ID: 4ff5f65b4b26d3fb • 2019-08-01 07:05:12 UTC
Bad gateway
after add location file in default configuration.

[gotwf]

@Zahid-Asim

Looks like you are getting a Ray ID error. I might guess you're hosting some stuff via Cloudflare? In wh/case maybe this helps.

In any event, impossible to guess w/o more details. Good luck. o/

[Zahid Asim]

@gotwf
Cloudflare using only for CDN, nothing host there. all firewall and other settings check. but same issue.
working well @ assets/ads.txt

location /ads.txt {
root /var/www/nodebb/public/;
}

but after add root in default configuration this error showing"domain/ads.txt"

[gotwf]

@Zahid-Asim Obviously not firewall issue else all requests accessing via port xyz would be blockaded. Hence => must be something configuration side: Either yours or Cloudflare.

Maybe try(??):

location ~^/ads.txt {
root /var/www/nodebb/public/;
}

I don't use Cloudflare so no clue what might be happening on their end. Good luck.

P.S.; Otherwise you need to post your entire nginx.conf cuz despite my best efforts I is not a mind reader.

[Zahid Asim]

@gotwf
not working same like prev