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I can not see public_html directory in FileZilla in Ubuntu 14.04 x64 VPS

  • Posted August 7, 2014

Hello, I am new to VPS servers. I have installed LAMP successfully by using the tutorial section which is fantastic. I am stuck in one place. Where I can upload my webpages using Filezilla?. When I login in FileZilla using the user : root, I can not see any public_html folder. I search some of the articles here and then some one says that there must be one user apart of the root user so I also created that. I have also make the required changes to setup the virtual host in apache by adding the .conf file. Here is the address

http://www.starvps.in/

This also shows the index files resides in the public_html folder which is working fine. My only issue is how I can see that public_html folder in FileZilla? I am using Ubuntu 14.04 x64. Thanks in advance… Ashish Joshi

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notanothervps • March 12, 2015

I have the same problem. Although I can navigate to the var/www/html folder in FileZilla that doesnt help me as i need to set Dreameaver up, usually I use my username, password, ip and the path which is usually public_html

As such, im probably missiing the set up for that but I have a standard LAMP stack with proftpd and it all seems in order.

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Andrew SB • August 7, 2014

Where did you create the public_html folder? By default, on Ubuntu 14.04, the document root for Apache is /var/www/html/ Files placed in the document root are what get served by Apache.

To see what your document root is, open the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf It will look something like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
	# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
	# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
	# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
	# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
	# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
	# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
	#ServerName www.example.com

	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html

	# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
	# error, crit, alert, emerg.
	# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
	# modules, e.g.
	#LogLevel info ssl:warn

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

	# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
	# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
	# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
	# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
	# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
	#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>