These days, there isn’t much of a concern about how to create a public_html folder in cPanel because there are so many possibilities.

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Let’s look at how our Support team created the public_html folder in cPanel in more detail.

How to create public_html folder in cPanel?

Our primary domain name’s web root is located in the public_html folder. This means that all of the website files that we want to appear when someone types the primary domain are placed in the public_html folder (the one we provided when we signed up for hosting).

Or, to put it another way, whatever is in the public_html folder will be displayed to users when they enter the domain name into their browser.

Where To Access?

The public_html folder is found in the cPanel’s File Manager.

Examples

For example, it will show the page if the public_html folder contains a file with the name index.html (or any of the other default filenames). A list of the files in the public_html folder will be displayed if there is no default file present (such as index.html, default.html, etc.).

Permissions

1. 750 permissions should always be set for the public_html folder.
2. Then the public_html folder should have 755 permissions on every folder inside.
3. The public html folder’s files should all have 755 or 644 permissions.

We recommend using 755 permissions because they are more secure even though some websites and scripts may suggest using 777 permissions for this purpose. Accessibility will be restricted for any file or folder with permissions set to 777. Use 755 instead of 777.

Instead of /public_html/, the full path is /home/username/public_html/, where username is the cPanel username. Since it is assumed that we are aware that we are in our own home directory, most of the time we will see /public_html/ rather than the complete path.

Create public_html via command line

To get access to the console command, we must connect to the server using ssh. If our server is Linux, proceed to:

mkdir ~/public_html
fs sa ~/public_html system:anyuser read

Then, in the event that our server is IIS:


cd /home/[User_name]/domains/domain

mkdir public_html

chown [User_name]:[User_name] public_html

chmod 755 public_html


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Conclusion

In conclusion, the primary domain name’s web root is the public_html folder. Our Support team covered the specifics of the public_html folder and various methods for creating it in this article.