To make sure it worked, you can echo the $HOME variable (you need to be logged in as demo, otherwise it will output the root directory) echo $HOME Now, the problem is that the demo user we created has a different home directory, but we want it to be the /var/To change the home directory use this command: sudo usermod -m -d /var/www/ demo htaccess files are visible and editable in your FTP client. Then search for these lines and remove the hashtag (#) before them: write_enable=YESįinally, add the following line to the end of the file: force_dot_files=YES You need to search for each of these options inside that file (with CTRL + W in nano editor) and change them to these values: anonymous_enable=NO

FTPįor FTP access we need to install the vsftpd package: sudo apt-get install vsftpdĪfter this is done, you need to edit the configuration in the /etc/nf file, so let’s open that up: sudo nano /etc/nf I recommend using Filezilla, it can support 1-10 parallel uploads, which can make things more comfortable.

So if you have an SFTP client like Filezilla or Notepad++, you can use the demo account to upload your files. How so? The root and the demo user are valid SFTP accounts as well. So far we have a running web server with a working database, but we don’t have FTP access.

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