If you independently are engaged in creation and advance of the website, but not too well understand technical subtleties and terminology, most likely, you had to face need to find the root directory of the website.
What is the root directory, or a root folder of the website
The root directory, root folder or even root of the website call primary partition of any given web resource. All folders and files which you load on the server are stored in it, in the same place there are also in-house documents.
The name of the section can be different depending on provider whose services you use, and server configurations.
For what to look for the root directory
In the root directory of the website there are such major files as Sitemaps and robots.txt. These are the office files intended especially for robots of search engines.
The Sitemaps file is in own way a site map for robots. It contains information on the refresh rate of pages of the website, their location, importance relatively each other and so on. It is the hint for scanners which facilitates their work and provides the correct indexing of pages.
Pay attention: you should add the Sitemaps file independently, but the robots.txt file for certain is already present at the root directory. It can be replaced with own.
The robots.txt file contains directives for search engines which report what pages to index and what – are not present. It is possible to include in it instructions for specific robots of certain search engines (for example, only for Yandex or only for Google).
Thus, if you seriously intend to advance the resource in search networks, it is just necessary to find for these files and to edit them to you.
Many beginning webmasters for the first time face a concept of the root directory, trying to register in Yandex service. Webmaster. To confirm the rights for management of the website, it is necessary to enter HTML code to pages of the website or to load a certain file into the root directory of the website. Here it is also necessary to puzzle: where this mysterious directory is?
How to find the root directory
To find a website root, it is necessary to come not into the control panel, and into the panel of a hosting on which your web resource is placed.
Most often the directory is called www, domains, HTDOCS, / public_html. So, on a hosting of Gino it is the domains folder.
On WordPress the root folder contains the sections wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes in the blog. Having seen sections with such name, you can be quite strongly sure that you are in the necessary directory.