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Why don't I see a "www" or "html" file when I try to sftp?

Posted on May 26, 2015

I’m pretty sure I installed everything correctly, but when I try to upload files via sftp there is no var/www or var/html directories to do so. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks :)



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You start in your home dir by default (e.g. /root or /home/nate), you should be able to navigate to /var/www.

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