I am trying to move my local wordpress folder to the server, how when I tried to move the files, I keep getting the error permission denied.
My procedure
/var/www/html$ user@100.200.300.1:/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpresstest/
Please copy/paste the entire command and the entire output. What you provided is not a command.
@Woet
jgacuca567@ubuntu-2gb-nyc3-01:/var/www/html$ rsync jgacuca567@148.198.0.159:/Users/jamesvanwaza/Dropbox/htdocs/2017/January/dosbrandingwp
This is what I posted, and It didnt work,
You may want to take a look at the guide here at DigitalOcean which covers rsync and syncing local to remote.
I did but I kept getting the error that the files do not exist,
This is what I did.
admin@140.5.20.30:/var/www/html$ rsync admin@140.5.20.30:/Users/jamesvanwaza/Dropbox/htdocs/2017/January/dosbrandingwp
If you’d read the tutorial, you’d know that after : comes to the destination directory.
@Woet , I did but this is the error I keep getting
rsync: change_dir "/Users/jamesvanwaza/Dropbox/htdocs/2017/January" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1655) [Receiver=3.1.1]
rsync: [Receiver] write error: Broken pipe (32)
Why are you using /Users/jamesvanwaza/Dropbox/htdocs/2017/January as the destination?
I have already changed the path on ubuntu to admin@ubuntu-4gb-nyc3-01:/var/www/html$ . How would you do it?
The command to push updates from a local directory to a remote directory would be:
rsync -a ~/dir1 username@remote_host:destination_directory
So if you’re local directory (the one on your computer) is:
/path/to/my/files
… and the remote directory (the one on your Droplet) is:
/home/username/files
… then we’d use the following. This assumes you’re transferring files as the root user to your Droplet. You’ll need to replace DROPLET_IP with your Droplet’s Public IP address and make sure you update the paths as this is just an example.
rsync -a /path/to/my/files root@DROPLET_IP:/home/username/files
You have to specify both paths, even if you’re running the command from the directory that you’re transferring files from. Also note the : between DROPLET_IP and the remote path.
Still doesn’t work even after updating starting with my path then the droplets path. See my screenshot below.
I’m not seeing a link to a screenshot :-).
Are you running this on your local PC/Mac or on the Droplet? It needs to be executed locally on your PC/Mac, not on the Droplet itself as you’re wanting to sync files from your local env to the Droplet.
You want to run it locally as your Droplet has no physical link or connection to your local environment, thus it isn’t aware of what does or doesn’t exist on it.
To sync from local to droplet, you need to run the rsync commands locally.
If you are trying to sync local files and directories from your Mac to your Droplet, you need to run the command I provided from your Mac.
To better understand, think of and look at the command this way
rsync -a source destination
source is where you’re transferring files from.
destination is where you’re transferring files to.
The command I provided was:
rsync -a /path/to/my/files root@DROPLET_IP:/home/username/files
In the above ..
our source is /path/to/my/files (i.e. on your Mac)
our destination is /home/username/files (i.e. on your Droplet)
So to transfer files from your Mac to your Droplet, you run the command I provided as-is and replace the source path with the path to your files on your Mac. You then replace the destination path with the path where you want the files from your Mac stored on your Droplet.
You would then update DROPLET_IP to be your Droplets Public IP address.
Yes.. so it’s not the destination, it’s the source. Your droplet is the destination.
What is the error? Are you sure user “jgacuca567” has access to /var/www/html?
rsync: change_dir "/Users/jamesvanwaza/Dropbox/htdocs/2017/January" failed: No such file or directory (2) Thats the error I keep getting.
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.1]
Why did you suddenly start executing the command on your droplet instead of your Mac?
I switched the destination and the source and followed the setup from the example
rsync -a /path/to/my/files root@DROPLET_IP:/home/username/files
Ok, using my screenshots, are you able to write the example for me using rsync then I try by copying and pasting?
As you can see, “Permission denied”. As I said before, your user doesn’t have access to /var/www/html.
What did you google for so far? You’re gonna have to put in some effort yourself.
Starting a new reply as the previous one is at it’s limit.
You’re not using root as I specified in the command I provided :-). As a result, unless the user you’re trying to upload as owns that directory, the command will fail.
For example, you’re trying to connect using jgacuca567 in the screenshot. If that user doesn’t own the directory /var/www/html, then that user will not be allowed to upload files to it.
You can see who owns the directory by running:
ls -al /var/www
You would need to run (on the Droplet):
chown -R jgacuca567:jgacuca567 /var/www/html
To change ownership of the files and directories if you plan on using that user with rsync. The root user doesn’t require any specific permissions simply because it’s root and root has access to read and write to any directory or file.
