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Missing www folder in /var/

Posted on November 15, 2013

Hey! I just set up my first droplet using Ubuntu 12.04 x32. I added a user and gave them all permissions and whatnot.

I also set up FileZilla so I could access my files and whatnot, and everything seems to be there…except the www folder. Anyone have any idea why this might be? I was planning on just throwing some test html files into it to test my domain out and everything.



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Do you have apache installed? What is the default virtual host’s DocumentRoot?

The <code>www</code> folder is not created until you install Apache.

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