How to access the "www"-folder on my machine via sFTP

Change the directory you are in try to browse to “/”. Also look for the “…” folder at the top of list of folders, double click to go up 1 folder level, repeat as needed to reach “/”

I can only access the user-folder and the “files”-folder. Clicking on the “…”-folder doesn’t do anything :/

looks like you have created a custom user. <br> <br>now you need to be sure about giving permissions to this user. <br> <br>did you follow this tut: <br>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-12-04 <br> <br>you need to be sure to give the user some permissions to access your WS. <br> <br>if you are done, then you will be able to go through the whole WS tree to see all listed files and folders. <br> <br>to give your user a permission to a folder do this: <br> <br>sudo chown -R my-user:www-data /folder-name <br> <br>///explanation:/// <br>------------------------- <br>my-user: is the user you want to give permision, <br>www-data: is the group your user belong to. <br> <br>you can use it like this: sudo chown -R youruser:youruser /folder-name <br> <br>then enter this command: <br> <br>sudo chmod -R 0755 /folder-name <br> <br>///explanation:/// <br>------------------------- <br>here you will give the permission to the user to access the folder(s) with writing + reading + executing <br> <br>Important, you need to be careful where to use these commands!! <br> <br>if I were in your situation,I will do this: <br> <br>I will give permission to user to this folder only: www <br> <br>so I have to go inside the folder with puTTY or DO console --> <br> <br>cd /usr/share/nginx <br> <br>it will be like this: <br> <br>user@yourhostname: /usr/share/nginx$ <br>then I can enter the command like this: <br> <br>sudo chown -R my-user:my-user ./www <br> <br>Then this command: <br> <br>sudo chmod -R 0755 ./www <br> <br>and you’re done! <br> <br>Good luck!!