Filezilla uploaded files to rails via sftp won't show up

@robertcristobal

Ah, the one-click image may use rails as the default user instead of root (which is standard for base OS installations). If the files are uploading without any errors, and it’s to the correct directory, unless there’s some degree of caching, then all should work.

To test things out, I just deployed a fresh RoR one-click and logged in with rails as the user, using SFTP on Port 22, and then the password I was provided with and then navigated to:

./rails/rails_project/app/views/home

… then downloaded the index.html.erb file, removed the logo from the default file, uploaded it, and then refreshed the page and it was gone as expected.

So if you’re not seeing the changes, it would appear that the file isn’t uploading despite what may be showing.

thanks for the feedback @jtittle

I’m not sure what logging in using root means but this is the screenshot of my Filezilla connection setting

Image

The files actually uploaded, I right click on the file via Filezilla and edit it, I can see the <h1>Hello world</h1> code I inserted on my local so the file uploaded, i’m not sure why that is not showing up when I visit my droplet IP because it is still showing the page in its original state.

Thank you!

@robertcristobal

When you login to SFTP using root, the first directory you’ll be dropped in to is /. From there you’d have to navigate to your project directory and then upload the files.

If the files are not uploading, you’d need to check the logs to see if there’s something being logged that details the issue. In FileZilla, at the top, there’s also output that should shed some light as to what is going on.

The default log directory is /var/log. We can run

tail -20 /var/log/auth.log

and

tail -20 /var/log/syslog

To see if anything pops up there.