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How to enable remote access

Posted on January 22, 2015

So when I was setting my server up with LAMP and Ubuntu I was going through the setup and I disabled remote access. Which I need to connect with file zilla to upload files. So, how do I reanable it?



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Even if you disable your ssh service you will still be able to access your droplet via the web console in the control panel. From there you can re-enable ssh in order to connect via Filezilla.

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