Step 1) Use nano or your preferred text editor to edit the files. Once the content of each file will open in the editor, you will have to update the “documentroot” value to the new path in the following files:
/var/cpanel/userdata/cPanelUsername/domain.tld
/var/cpanel/userdata/cPanelUsername/domain.tld_SSL
Edit Document root to any location
Eg: documentroot from /home/cPanelUsername/public_html to /home/cPanelUsername/zen/public
Step 2) The next step is to remove the existing cache files:
rm /var/cpanel/userdata/cPanelUsername/domain.tld.cache
rm /var/cpanel/userdata/cPanelUsername/domain.tld_SSL.cache
Step 3) Rebuild the cache files and the Apache configuration file:
/scripts/updateuserdatacache
/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
Step 4) Restart Apache:
/scripts/restartsrv_httpd
After following the steps described in this tutorial, the primary domain of your cPanel account will be loading the content from the new documentroot that you’ve set.
