By andrewpandji
I was trying to upload a website that I’ve created onto a droplet server. Was able to login via FTP just fine (through FileZilla). When I tried moving my files to the /var/www directory it refused to upload the file. The reason for file transfer failure was that the directory was open for write: permission denied.
Here is the log: Status: Starting upload of /Users/andrewp/Documents/Freelance_Projects/TechArtista+Kyte/kyte_site/kyte_site.html Status: Retrieving directory listing… Command: ls Status: Listing directory /var/www/html Command: put “/Users/andrewp/Documents/Freelance_Projects/TechArtista+Kyte/kyte_site/kyte_site.html” “kyte_site.html” Error: /var/www/html/kyte_site.html: open for write: permission denied Error: File transfer failed Status: Retrieving directory listing… Command: ls Status: Listing directory /var/www/html Status: Directory listing successful
More details:
- My droplet is running Ubuntu 12.04 and I’ve installed LAMP stack.
- I connected via SFTP, (port 22) on FileZilla
This is the first time I’ve done anything like this so help would be great :)
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I ran the above commands but it didnt work until i tried the solution found here: http://yogodoshi.com/how-to-fix-open-for-write-permission-denied-error-sftp/
I set ssh and made connection with filezilla but getting same error:
File transfer failed
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