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GeekyFreaky
GeekyFreaky

Reputation: 293

Cannot copy contents of Wordpress directory to the web server root

I'm a total newbie at this! I have a virtual machine running Debian 9. I have LAMP installed. I am following the instructions at this link to install WordPress: https://www.adminbyaccident.com/gnu-linux/how-to-install-wordpress-on-debian-9-lamp-stack/

I am now at this step:

We now copy the contents of the wordpress directory to the web server root.

albert@debian:~/wordpress$ sudo cp -a ~/wordpress/* /var/www/html
[sudo] password for albert:
albert@debian:~/wordpress$

However, when I try this (I don't use "sudo" because it's not installed on Debian by default), I get the following error message:

enter image description here Someone please help me!!! Thank you so much.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 746

Answers (1)

L. Männer
L. Männer

Reputation: 469

It looks like the wordpress directory is not in the root directory. Did you cd somewhere after downloading? If not, the wordpress dir should be at your current dir which is /home/lanalee/. Type in ls to list all files in /home/lanalee/. If the list shows a directory named wordpress, you can continue with the following command:

cp -a ./wordpress/* /var/www/html

I replaced the ~ which points to your systems root directory with a . that refers to the folder your currently in.

If there is no wordpress directory listed, please type ls ~/ and share the output with us.

Upvotes: 2

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