Sitemap question ? - Root Path

[CT-Content]

I just purchased A1 Sitemap Generator 4.2 `Professional edition`.

To scan my website and create a .xml sitemap it's asking for my websites directory root path. How do I find that path or can I put the websites URL in there instead ?
Is there really any difference ?

Thanks

[2014]

Yea the root path is most likely your domain.

[TROLLENSTEIN]

Your website root is the folder that contains your website files, the root path is the location on the server drive Apache serves your website from eg : /var/www/html/yourwebsitenamehere

You can find your websites root path by creating a file called path.php with just this code in it:

<?php print __FILE__; ?>

and upload it via FTP to your website. Then go to yourwebsitenamehere.com/path.php (just remove the 'path.php' text at the end of the output) to view the root path location.

[Harmon]

ask your host - shit tends to be all over the map

[CT-Content]

Nothing was working besides my actual .com domain name but like Harmon said,
I can be scanning a lot of unwanted junk.

Zach over at amerinoc told me this:

AmeriNOC Support

3:32 PM (10 minutes ago)

The path is usually /home/(user)/domains/(domain)/public_html/

For example /home/sign-on/domains/your site.com/public_html/


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Zachary Taylor
AmeriNOC Support

Thanks everyone