By Mike h
I have 1 droplet with 5 working sites in it. Trying to update the theme for one of them.
I’m trying to upload a theme in .zip format but get the error message “413 Request Entity Too Large” (via traditional Wordpress theme back end)
I am also connecting to my droplet using Filezilla, I’m trying to navigate to main directory.
It seems like /var/www/html is supposed to be the main directory, but I there is nothing there, only an index.html and an info.php.
If I got to /root/restore/httpdocs I see all of the sites in my droplet on it. I uploaded a theme to that location using FTP, but it doesn’t show on WP backend. So my question is, what is the right directory?
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The default on Ubuntu is /var/www/html for Apache and Nginx but with a multi-site configuration it’s likely that someone changed the defaults. You can find out the root location for each site by looking at the configuration files in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled or /etc/nginx/sites-enabled depending on which web browser you are using.
You can resolve the 413 error you are seeing by adjusting the settings in your php.ini. This will be located in:
/etc/php/fpm/
or
/etc/php7-0/
and the items you’ll want to change are:
max_post_size
upload_max_size
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