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Can't access to /var/www/ using filezilla

Posted on May 13, 2014

I’ve just installed wordpress and sftpd on my Ubuntu 12.04. But when I log in with filezilla, there’s no www folder, only two empty folders: files and .cache.

I’v aleady given my user permission using: chown -R username /var/www/

I’m very new to all of these, can anyone tell me why? Thanks



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Holly shit, I chose FTP, not SFTP when I set up the connection in filezilla, shame on me!! <br>Now it’s okay. Andrew, thanks for your help ;)

It sounds like you are just in the home folder for the user. Does it look like this image: <br> <br>http://i.imgur.com/tR58gst.png <br> <br>If so, just click on the highlighted folder, and it will expand. <br>

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