{"id":2278,"date":"2020-06-09T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=2278"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:00:12","slug":"windows-server-domain-physical-path","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/windows-server-domain-physical-path","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server Domain Physical Path: 4 Essential Locations You Must Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/licendi.com\/media\/magefan_blog\/2023\/03\/Windows-Server-2.png\" alt=\"Windows Server \" width=\"347\" height=\"214\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Domain Physical Path in windows server<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Windows 2003 server , all the domains and subdomains will have the following format of physical path :<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">C:\\Domains\\domain.com\\wwwroot (web pages)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">C:\\Domains\\domain.com\\db (database)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">C:\\Domains\\domain.com\\wwwroot\\subdomain_name (sub domain directory)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">C:\\Domains\\domain.com\\logs (log files)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You have a domain namely abc.com and a subdomain name test.abc.com , the physical path will be as follow :<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>C:\\Domains\\abc.com\\wwwrootC:\\Domains\\abc.com\\db<\/p>\n<p>C:\\Domains\\abc.com\\wwwroot\\test<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please refer to the following articles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-to-run-windows-update\/\">How to Run Windows Update<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domain Physical Path in windows server In Windows 2003 server , all the domains and subdomains will have the following format of physical path : C:\\Domains\\domain.com\\wwwroot (web pages) C:\\Domains\\domain.com\\db (database) C:\\Domains\\domain.com\\wwwroot\\subdomain_name (sub domain directory) C:\\Domains\\domain.com\\logs (log files) Example: You have a domain namely abc.com and a subdomain name test.abc.com , the physical path will be as follow : C:\\Domains\\abc.com\\wwwrootC:\\Domains\\abc.com\\db C:\\Domains\\abc.com\\wwwroot\\test&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[55],"kbtag":[1277],"class_list":["post-2278","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-windows-server","kbtag-windows-servers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6358,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/2278\/revisions\/6358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}