Where would the publichtml folder be located when sshing

dilroopgill

Im trying to install friendica and you can gitclone the directory over, but i'm not sure how to put it in public_html. "Unpack the Friendica files into the root of your web server document area." Is what it says to do.

Rich

ssh into the website.

cd public_html
git clone <gir_url> .

The dot will tell it to extract here, i.e. in the root of your web folder.

dilroopgill

Rich yeah my issue is I ssh in and there is no public_html directory to cd into, i tried backing out and looking around, no idea where it would be but it isn't at the initialy directory you enter, find ~ also doesn't show it. Tried making some folders manually and seeing if i can find them but can't find those either.

Rich

Alternatively and probably better for you is to use the file manager in enhance, navigate to the public_html folder and upload one of the released: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/releases

dilroopgill

Rich I'll just do it with the file manager for now.

cPFence

dilroopgill yeah my issue is I ssh in and there is no public_html directory to cd into, i tried backing out and looking around, no idea where it would be but it isn't at the initialy directory you enter, find ~ also doesn't show it. Tried making some folders manually and seeing if i can find them but can't find those either.

Just do this:

su username
cd /var/www/*/public_html/

Make your changes, and when you're done, type:

exit

Dan

Are you sure you're SSH'd in as the user? What do you see when you run an ls?

dilroopgill

cPFence
Didn't work but was still helpful for finding it was under a lot of random letters and numbers i just ls -R once i knew it was in var/www

cPFence

dilroopgill

The random letters and numbers are the website ID. Each website in Enhance CP gets a unique ID like this.

By "didn't work," do you mean it wasn’t found, or was another error thrown?

Adam

The public_html directory is created when the website is created, it should be there unless it has been deleted. You don't need to worry about finding the home dir because if you ssh or su to the website user you will already be placed in the correct directory. I would not recommend working on websites as root, it's likely to cause permission issues.

MediaServe

Adam FWIW su lands me at / in the container, not public_html. To get there I "cd ~/public_html".

Adam

MediaServe

Do su - username and it will start a new shell and place you in the home dir.

MediaServe

Adam Ah, that works.