Problem with scp

[Mariane]

Hi,

I copied a zip file (to install prestashop) using:

scp prestashop_1.5.4.1.zip administrator@mysite.com:

It took a while then said it had copied 17M of data. Then the computer hanged for 2 or 3 minutes, before giving me the command prompt again.

Then I went to the /var/www directory on the server and looked for the file. It was not there.

What should I do, please?

[Mariane]

Ooops, I'm so sorry, it was in ./home/administrator/prestashop_1.5.4.1.zip

[rubylaser]

By default, the way you scp'd that zipfile would have put the files in the admin user's home directory (likely /home/administrator) not in /var/www. If you want to have the file go to /var/www you can either ssh in and move the zip file to the appropriate location.

mv /home/administrator/prestashop_1.5.4.1.zip /var/www/

Or, you can scp it over properly like this.

scp prestashop_1.5.4.1.zip administrator@mysite.com:/var/www/

This requires that the administrator user has the privileges to write to /var/www.