{"id":4609532,"date":"2014-02-13T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cant-find-upload-directory-start-over\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:16:36","slug":"cant-find-upload-directory-start-over","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cant-find-upload-directory-start-over\/","title":{"rendered":"cant find upload directory. start over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and thanks for looking. I am running LAMP w\/ubuntu 12.04 on a VPS. I have a wordpress blog up and running but am having trouble locating the proper directories. I&#8217;m using the command line to look for my directory containing wp-contents.<\/p>\n<p>find . -type d<\/p>\n<p>to find the path to wp-content:<\/p>\n<p>find . -name wp-content -type d<\/p>\n<p>If it is not there then change directory to your root dir.<\/p>\n<p>cd ~<\/p>\n<p>The above commands give me:<\/p>\n<p>.\/public<br \/>\n.\/public\/exampledesign.info<br \/>\n.\/public\/exampledesign.info\/public<br \/>\n.\/public\/exampledesign.info\/log<br \/>\n.\/public\/exampledesign.info\/backup<br \/>\n.\/.cache<\/p>\n<p>but nothing about my wp-content folder. Where is this folder hiding? I installed wordpress using &#8220;wget&#8221; command and I&#8217;m wondering if I need to start over and install via FTP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-4609532","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/4609532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/4609532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}