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Can't see website files on my droplet

I have a WordPress site hosted on DigitalOcean, however I can’t see the site files on the droplet (I’m on a Mac). I know they exist since the website is live. I know very little about DigitalOcean, so I may be omitting important technical information. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

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Bobby Iliev • January 28, 2021

Hi there,

By default, the website files would be in the /var/www/html directory.

If you are connecting via SSH to your Droplet, you can use the cd command to get to that directory:

cd /var/www/html

If the files are not in there, you can use the cat command and check your Apache configuration file and find the document root:

cat /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/your_site

If you are using Nginx instead of Apache, you can use this command:

cat /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/your_site

Then look for the document root path.

Let me know how it goes! Regards, Bobby

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