Craft install via composer: install to public_html?

When I do composer create-project craftcms/craft, it will create a web folder. My webroot is called public_html though. Can I change this somehow, or should I make a symlink?

composer create-project craftcms/craft

web

public_html

Or simply don't use composer to install in that case?

1 Answer
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You can just rename web/ to public_html/, or move all the files inside web/ into public_html/. (Don’t forget to move the .htaccess and .env files, if the latter.)

web/

public_html/

web/

public_html/

.htaccess

.env

As long as the location of the public_html/ folder is in the same place as the web/ folder was, you don’t need to change anything else.

public_html/

web/

my-project.test/
├── config/
├── ...
└── public_html/
├── index.php
└── ...


If you need to change the location to something like this:

my-project.test/
├── craft/
│ ├── config/
│ └── ...
└── public_html/
├── index.php
└── ...


Then just make sure that your CRAFT_BASE_PATH constant points to the right base path (craft/).

CRAFT_BASE_PATH

craft/

// old:
define('CRAFT_BASE_PATH', dirname(__DIR__));

// new:
define('CRAFT_BASE_PATH', dirname(__DIR__) . '/craft');


composer update

/vendor

/public

/web

home/craft

config

modules

storage

template

vendor

home/public_html

web

CRAFT_BASE_PATH

CRAFT_BASE_PATH

public_html/index.php

craft/

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