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filezilla cannot see /var/www folder

Posted on October 27, 2015

Hello, When Filezilla connects to my VPS, I cannot see my /var/www/html folder? I can see that I am in root and can cess some files and .cache directory Please help



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Awesome to hear that you got it to work! :) And here are some additional information that may help you. When you login to the server the server via SSH/SFTP, it will take you to the user’s home directory. If you logged in using the root user, it will be the root user’s home folder. You can move up the directory and it will take you to the base directory where /var, /etc and etc are located.

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