Since there is a 8M limit on themes we can upload to wordpress server.
We wish to transfer files through ftp
Tried using instructions available in other questions.
But nothing can be accessed from the FTP server.
Check out the tutorial for the WordPress One-Click app.:
If you would like to upload additional content or manipulate files directly, you would have to either use SFTP/SCP (uses SSH, encrypted, and is a recommended method), or FTP (uses FTP, plain text, and is not recommend). Your Wordpress installation is in /var/www
By default, the webpages are owned by user “www-data”. If you would like to setup the FTP server you would have to install it (however, we recommend using SFTP/SCP/Rsync over SSH method):
apt-get -y install proftpd
This tutorial will also be helpful:
How To Use SFTP to Securely Transfer Files with a Remote Server
