Symfony 2 web directory rename - php

Question

I have a Symfony 2 project and I cant rename the web dir for some reasons. I am trying to rename it to public.
According to the manual, I am suppose to change the composer.json and make sure the links in app.php and app_dev.php is correct.
But when I run app/console server:run, it shows
The given document root directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/xxx/app/../web" does nto exists.
I have changed the composer.json, run composer install and composer update but still no luck. Here is my composer.json , as you can see I have already added "symfony-web-dir": "public" to the file.
If I rename my public folder to web, then everything is fine, but for certain reasons I can't do that.
{
"name": "symfony/framework-standard-edition",
"license": "MIT",
"type": "project",
"description": "The \"Symfony Standard Edition\" distribution",
"autoload": {
"psr-0": { "": "src/" }
},
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.3",
"symfony/symfony": "~2.4",
"doctrine/orm": "~2.2,>=2.2.3",
"doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "~1.2",
"twig/extensions": "~1.0",
"symfony/assetic-bundle": "~2.3",
"symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "~2.3",
"symfony/monolog-bundle": "~2.4",
"sensio/distribution-bundle": "~2.3",
"sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "~3.0",
"sensio/generator-bundle": "~2.3",
"incenteev/composer-parameter-handler": "~2.0",
"richsage/rms-push-notifications-bundle": "dev-master",
"friendsofsymfony/user-bundle": "~1.3",
"ircmaxell/password-compat": "~1.0.3"
},
"scripts": {
"post-install-cmd": [
"Incenteev\\ParameterHandler\\ScriptHandler::buildParameters",
"Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap",
"Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::clearCache",
"Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installAssets",
"Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installRequirementsFile"
],
"post-update-cmd": [
"Incenteev\\ParameterHandler\\ScriptHandler::buildParameters",
"Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap",
"Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::clearCache",
"Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installAssets",
"Sensio\\Bundle\\DistributionBundle\\Composer\\ScriptHandler::installRequirementsFile"
]
},
"config": {
"bin-dir": "bin"
},
"extra": {
"symfony-app-dir": "app",
"symfony-web-dir": "public",
"incenteev-parameters": {
"file": "app/config/parameters.yml"
},
"branch-alias": {
"dev-master": "2.4-dev"
}
}
}

Answer 1

You can indeed change the name of the 'web' directory, but the server:run command does not expect this. As you can see in the ServerRunCommand source code (on line 77), the 'web' directory is hard-coded in there.
However, you should be able to solve this by simply providing the --docroot option when running the command:
bin/console server:run --docroot=C:/xampp/htdocs/xxx/public
(replace bin/console with the location of the console, which may be app/console if you are using the Symfony 2 structure)