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) |