By ss4502
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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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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