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--- haas:spring2022:unix:projects:wpa0 [2021/09/25 17:07] – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 Many of you have likely already been interacting with your web URL as a means of facilitating activities in other assignments.
-The "**~username**", and specifically the tilde (~), is a server-configured feature indicating your home directory's web directory, which is **public_html/**, any content put under that directory and made world readable (**public_html/** itself as well as your parent home directory must both have world search in order for it to work as well). You may create subdirectories under **public_html/** and store web content under them- the same permissions requirements apply.
+The "**~username**", and specifically the tilde (~), is a server-configured feature indicating your home directory's web directory, which is **public_html/**, any content put under that directory and made world readable (**public_html/** itself as well as your parent home directory must both have world search (aka execute) in order for it to work as well). You may create subdirectories under **public_html/** and store web content under them- the same permissions requirements apply.
+In some web-server contexts, your **public_html/** directory might also be referred to as a sort of "document root". So if you see paths starting with "/", that does NOT mean the root of the filesystem, but the base of your **public_html/** directory.
 To reference any subdirectories, merely append the directory name after the "**~username/**" component of the URL.

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