Connect Linode With FTP
I have installed a faulty wordpress plugin and the moment I installed that my website frontnend and backend stopped working. Now, I need to remove that plugin but can not open my website's front end and backend at all.
SO for deleting the faulty plugin, need FTP details.
I have tried all the possibilities for login into Filezilla but could not.
Request you all to please help me with this.
Thank You
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You don’t have ssh(1) enabled? You should… FTP sends passwords in the clear & is therefore insecure. You shouldn’t use it at all…for anything!
…and, no, I don’t know how to do that in FileZilla ;-)
— sw
Thanks for replying
If you have SSH enabled (standard on Linode images; or more accurately SFTP) you can tell FileZilla to connect to port 22. If you need to specify a protocol, it’s SFTP.
Hostname is your Linode’s public IP, username and password are your SSH login details.
That will give you access to your Linode’s filesystem that is only restricted by the permissions of your SSH user.
If you have a firewall enabled (you should) you may need to allow your local IP access to port 22, but if you can already SSH into it, you’re all set.)