Report this

What is the reason for this report?

Silly FileZilla login question

Posted on January 27, 2015

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. I set up the new root password and logged into filezilla successfully. My host was the IP for my website I’m hosting, username was root, password is the one I resetup through console access and port is 22 for wordpress. BUT, I can’t see the directories I want to see.

Am I doing everything right, here’s more infromation: Through my digitalocean, I have set up filezilla. I’ve logged in with my root password and username. I’m trying to re-edit the functions.php for my wordpress file but can’t seem to find it the directory? I need to just change up a line of text in that file that is causing that error, but I can’t seem to find the functions.php. I’ve done ‘force showing hidden folders’ as well, in FileZilla.

Everywhere I have looked it seemed that people were able to access the directory: wp-content themes yourtheme functions.php

But mine isn’t there. My remote site isn’t like that? Here’s a screenshot: http://imgur.com/ehDKXT9

Here’s the navigation video on how to find the file through file manager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqIiLm70US8

Please help!



This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Well it seems like is not possible to use an image snapshot to start a new droplet. You will have to create a droplet and set up wordpress then just move files and database

When you login into your droplet via SFTP as the root user you start out in that user’s home directory “/root” To access your wordpress files you would need to go up a directory and then navigate to /var/www/html

You do know DO has a one click instal of wordpress. It will install everything that is necessary for the server.

The developer cloud

Scale up as you grow — whether you're running one virtual machine or ten thousand.

Get started for free

Sign up and get $200 in credit for your first 60 days with DigitalOcean.*

*This promotional offer applies to new accounts only.