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I can't have a mess of craft stuff at the root of my server so I try to use the following directory structure, with craft files and folders gathered in a craft directory :
craft
-- config
-- modules
-- storage
-- vendor
-- etc...
www
-- index.php
-- web.config
-- etc.
This structure gives me a 500 error. I assume I can change a path variable somewhere, but I just can't find where. Any ideas ?
You have to define the path to Craft in your www/index.php file.
define('CRAFT_BASE_PATH', __DIR__ . '/../craft/' ); // <- in your case something like this
The constant CRAFT_BASE_PATH must point to your /craft folder
You should not be placing Craft at the root of your server, ideally you would place it one level above the Web Root directory, i.e. the one your domain name resolves to.
So, depending on your server OS you would need something like var/www/example.com/craft/ and var/www/example.com/www/ where var/www/example.com/www/ is the Web Root.
Just to add, this is the structure Craft is configured to expect, out-of-the-box, but with the publicly acceesible folder being public_html/ rather than www/.
