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Why is my /var/www empty?

Posted February 6, 2016 2.9k

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I’m struggling with a Wordpress website on my Droplet - my /var/www/html folder is empty when I SFTP with a client.

The website is fine and loading as normal…What am I doing wrong? Where are the files?!

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nickeatworld

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olavamjelde February 6, 2016
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Hi, I would look in your server config (nginx, openlightspeed or apache, what are you using?) and see where your www-directory is.

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ddulic February 6, 2016

Check if its still empty if you ssh into it. Maybe your stfp user doesn’t have the right read permissions.

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nickeatworld February 7, 2016

Yes you’re right - permission denied. Is there a beginners guide to setting permissions for this user you could point me towards?
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- ddulic February 7, 2016
  
  Check out chmod or adding the sftp user to the www-data group with usermod should also work.
  
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