How to Host WordPress site on Digital Ocean VPS

Using FileZilla to browse and manage your server

In this post, we are going to use FileZilla a lot, and less using command line. Using command line is faster and easier for advance user but this post is for a linux newbie (like myself), I think it’s important to understand the structure using some UI. I found it easier when I just getting started, because I don’t know much about command line.

Use “Site Manager” to save your FileZilla session

1. Open FileZilla.
2. Open “Edit > Setting”
3. Navigate to “Connection > SFTP”
4. Click “Add keyfile..” and select your “private key” we get from PuTTYgen.
5. Click “OK” to save.
6. Open “File > Site Manager”.
7. Click “New Site” to create a new profile for our server.
8. In “General” tab, input “example-domain.com” in “Host”, “22” in “Port” and select “SFTP” in “Protocol” drop down, in “Logon Type” select “Interactive“, and in “user” input “root“.
9. Click “Connect” to start our session.
10. You are login to your server using FileZilla and now can browse your server and edit files, upload, etc.

When you first browse/login in FileZilla you’ll see “root” folder. Click the folder link above it to browse your whole server to get better understanding of your server folder structure.

Your public_html folder for your site/domain located on “/var/www” folder.