Linux Application Paths - What is the path to ...?
All of the paths in this article use an example home directory of /home/username. For the correct home directory path to replace this with, you may check the Home Directory path listed in your cPanel under GENERAL INFORMATION in the left-hand sidebar.
Once you have identified your correct home directory, simply replace /home/username with the correct directory path.
Here is a list of commonly used paths:
webroot path | /home/username/public_html |
/home/username/mail/domain.tld/user's name/ | |
save session | /home/username/tmp |
AWStats | /home/username/tmp/awstats |
cgi | /home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/ |
Perl | /usr/local/bin/perl |
Sendmail | /usr/sbin/sendmail |
PHP | /usr/local/bin/php |
PHP 5.5 | /opt/php55/bin/php |
PHP 5.6 | /opt/php56/bin/php |
MySQL | /var/lib/mysql |
Mysqldump | /usr/bin/mysqldump |
Pear | /usr/local/bin/pear |
Python | /usr/bin/python |
Python 2.7 | /usr/bin/python2.7 |
openSSL | /usr/bin/openssl |
FTP | /home/username/ (only accessible if using the cPanel login) |
Aspell | /usr/bin/aspell |
ImageMagick | /usr/bin/ |
ImageMagick Converter | /usr/bin/convert /usr/local/bin/convert /usr/bin/X11/convert |
GD2 library | /usr/lib |
GD2 includes | /usr/include |
rsync | /usr/bin/rsync |
ghostscript | /usr/bin/ghostscript |
Exim logs | /var/log/exim_mainlog |
Alias files | /etc/valiases/ |
PHPmyadmin | http://example.com:2082/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/index.php |
sbin | /usr/sbin - but is not accessable. |
cgi-sys | /var/cpanel/cgi-sys |
Apache on a Linux server | /usr/local/apache |
Get | /usr/bin/GET |
LYNX | /usr/bin/lynx |
WGET | /usr/bin/wget |
CURL | /usr/bin/curl |
FFMPEG | /usr/bin/ffmpeg (requires VPS or dedicated server with FFMPEG installed) |