> The mere concept of a "document root" is a problem though and a major footgun if you don't know what you're doing. A non issue though after 2-3 days of worki

> The mere concept of a "document root" is a problem though and a major footgun if you don't know what you're doing. A non issue though after 2-3 days of working with this approach. All modern PHP frameworks have a so called front controller (an index.php file) that loads what it requires from ../ after, ideally, properly validating the request to avoid issues.