Public vs. docroot

[dasjo]

hi there,

i tried getting started with the template, following instructions from
https://www.mautic.org/blog/developer/managing-mautic-with-composer

i ran the create command successfully:
composer create-project mautic/recommended-project:4.x-dev some-dir --no-interaction

one thing that irritated me is that the documentation mentions "public" being used as a folder while the script puts it into "docroot". this doesn't seem to cause any problems but might be worth aligning to avoid confusion

best,
josef

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[RCheesley]

Thanks for flagging this up!

@nickveenhof one for you, might need to update the documentation?

[nickveenhof]

What is generally the most accepted name these days? Public? Web? Docroot?

[davidspiola]

I would vote for "Web" :-)

[Moongazer]

Most projects I've seen using public/, also this is the default when using DDEV. That's why I'd vote stongly for public/.

Edit:
Another good reason for NOT using web/ or docroot/ is, that these folders-names are often used by shared-hosting providers for the "root" of a shared-host account. Using public/ as sub-folder where the domain is pointing to makes most sense (instead of pointing to web/web/ or docroot/docroot/ in such cases):

/var/www/customer-123456/[web|docroot]/ (shared-hosting root)
  my-backups/
  bin/
  public/ (here's where the domain points to)
  vendor/

[mabumusa1]

Most projects I've seen using public/, also this is the default when using DDEV. That's why I'd vote stongly for public/.

Edit:
Another good reason for NOT using web/ or docroot/ is, that these folders-names are often used by shared-hosting providers for the "root" of a shared-host account. Using public/ as sub-folder where the domain is pointing to makes most sense (instead of pointing to web/web/ or docroot/docroot/ in such cases):

/var/www/customer-123456/[web|docroot]/ (shared-hosting root)
  my-backups/
  bin/
  public/ (here's where the domain points to)
  vendor/

@Moongazer would like to make a PR for this, there is another PR that is very close to get merged is getting Mautic closer to symfony standard folder structure

[Moongazer]

I can try if I find some spare time. But before I start working on a PR:

Does everyone agree that we use public/ as default for every future Mautic setup via recommended-project? I mean, is this a fixed decision already?

[mabumusa1]

I can try if I find some spare time. But before I start working on a PR:

Does everyone agree that we use public/ as default for every future Mautic setup via recommended-project? I mean, is this a fixed decision already?

We did not discuss it explicitly in the community, but I think many of us agree that we need to be closer to how Symfony is structured, check the discussion here

mautic/mautic#12206 (review)

If you are on slack, please join us in product channel, I will post about this topic today

[tomekkowalczyk]

public as default for every future Mautic setup