Question
Setting up correct path for Web and Ftp user account
First , I like to thank DigitalOcean for their No nonsense straight to the point tutorials on how to setup everything about VPS linux , to get one with no experience like me to get my site up and running.
also , I do not have a digitalocean Droplet yet , as i learned about this site trying to manage VPS from other provider. so I hope someone can also help me with my question.
As per all tutorials here . I setup Vhost for a domain by creating folder in /var/ww/USER/publichtml. this works just fine.
Also from tutorial here , i setup VSFTPD .. and i added ftp folder to /home/USER/ftp . this works as well . however, as a ftp user i have no access to my publichtml folder . after upload , i have to use command line to move files from ftp folder to my public_html.
wouldn’t be much easier to create public_html and Ftp folders under /home/USER account ?
I come from shared hosting plans , looking at the structure of my folder, i noticed this is how they created all my folders when i joined.
/home/User/publichtml
/home/User/publicftp
/home/User/email
etc…
Can anyone tell me what is the benefit of going this direction and if doing this would allow ftp user access to public_html for file management.
Thank you so much.