Learn about your Apps directory structure

bin
dev
etc
lib64
proc
tmp               < 2GB temporary files
usr
srv
  app
    {{app-name}}
      htdocs      < default root path
      logs        < log files

When you login with SFTP or SSH to your Universal App you can "travel up" in the file directory structure. In this article you can learn the predefined set of folders for each App and what they are for.

htdocs

The default web root (aka document root) of your App. Directory that forms the main directory tree visible from the web. You can change the routing point, to any folder below the htdocs directory. The Git deployment syncs to the htdocs folder as well.

The htdocs folder is also your "login folder", i.e. the folder you are in when logging in via SSH/SFTP. The whole path looks something like this: /srv/app/{{app-name}}/htdocs/admin.

tmp

Temporary folder; limited to 2GB of storage. Files older than 15 days will be automatically purged. Typical use cases are the default PHP session file folder or a temp destination for file uploads via PHP (before move_uploaded_file() is called).

For multi node plans: The tmp folder is not shared. Meaning that each node has "their own" temporary folder.

logs

Where the Apache and PHP errors are located. Also see: logging for Universal Apps and logging for Professional Apps to learn how to access those and how to work with them.

Other folders

The rest of the folders (and files which are not shown here) are part of the standard Linux distribution. All this stuff is handled by us for you. So you don't need to care about them. You can't change things outside the above outlined context.