How to Change the www root directory on WampServer 2.5

Question

My need is to change the default sites directory of wamp from say "c:\wamp\www" to say "d:\sites". Right now my projects in "d:\sites" do not show in the project list:

I found a few past answers like this one and this one which I think are not applicable to WampServer 2.5 (anyway, it did not work for me).

I also found this procedure in the documentation, but it seems far too complex for what I need.

Any help on this matter would be appreciated.

Answer 1

In newer version of wamp, changing DocumentRoot in httpd.conf did not change DOCUMENT_ROOT. Even after restarting, it stayed as "c:/wamp64/www/".

Instead, the DocumentRoot is set in this file:

  c:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.18\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf

To change the localhost directory, change these to your path:

      DocumentRoot c:/www
      <Directory  "c:/www/">

Answer 2

The thing you wanna do is little bit tricky.To do the thing you want just follow following steps:

1 Open file C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache*.*.*\conf\httpd.conf

2 Find following lines :

DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
<Directory "c:/wamp/www">

3 Modify them to change your root directory /*In my case i want my "C:\" drive as root*/ so i do this :

DocumentRoot "c:/"
<Directory "c:/">

4 Now go to c:\wamp\www find index.php and copy it,and pest into your new root /*In my case i want my "C:\" drive as root*/

5 Now open that index.php and find the following lines:

$wampConfFile = '../wampmanager.conf';
$aliasDir = '../alias/';

6 Now just modify them relative to your root /*In my case i want my "C:\" drive as root*/ so i write:

$wampConfFile = './wamp/wampmanager.conf';
$aliasDir = './wamp/alias/';

Now it will show the default wamp opening page which is shown in the picture!