By Sean Do
Installed LEMP with ubuntu 14.04. There’s no ‘html’ or ‘www’ folder in ‘var’ folder like I see in other people’s droplet as example. How can I start uploading my website to the server?
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Hello, NGINX has as document root the folder /usr/share/nginx/html/. To change your folder edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/default and set root to /var/www/html. I think you will need to create by your self the folder with sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html
I made the folder, but now ssh account can’t upload to the server.
Error Directory /var/www: permission denied
Installed LEMP with ubuntu 14.04. Created the /var/www folder Allow my ssh user to write to /var/www Uploaded everything, but now I’m getting 403 Forbidden
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