Migrating Wordpress website with blogvault. Cannot see /var/www/html
I have created a litespeed wordpress node. Now when I am trying to migrate my site using my blogvault.net migration tool I am unable to see the normal /var/www/html directly to migrate into.
The creds i used to authenticate are my root creds from when I set up the linode.
When I run a ls command I can see the directory in console. But when using tbe blogvault migration tool there is no /var/www/html to migrare into
What do I do now?
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CassandraD
Linode Staff
I'm not familiar with the migration tool you mentioned to know how it works, but I'd recommend taking a look at some our migration resources to see if that works better:
How to Migrate a WordPress.com Website to Linode - this seems to use a GUI rather than the command line, so hopefully it ends up being easier.
That involves first downloading and installing Wordpress, linking to a guide for Ubuntu 18.04, but you can change the distribution by clicking the the distro name in the gray bar under the page title.
Best Practices When Migrating to Linode - Not specific to Wordpress, but might still be helpful.
Based on some research, I can try to offer some suggestions if you'd like to keep using that tool, but I don't have enough information to say for sure if any of this is the root of the issue.
First, if using the root user's credentials doesn't work, it's possible that the folder isn't owned by root, depending on how you set it up. You can see who owns the file by running the command ls -la while you're in the parent directory for that folder. If needed, you could change ownership to root or try using the credentials for the owner.
Finally, you may want to check out our SFTP Guide since that seems to be the protocol that BlogVault uses for migration. You may need to open a port in a firewall or enable SSH. If you disabled SSH with root or with a password while Securing Your Server that could also be causing issues.
Ultimately, this could be an issue with BlogVault from the limited information here, so you may want to go to their site and look for support or community documents or forums. I didn't find much, but I can see you can click the speech bubble in the bottom right hand corner to ask questions for more help.