adding new directory

i would like to add a new directory to


/var/www/clients/client1/web1

called ftp or whatever i really dont care about the name

i have tried everything i can find and nothing works every time i create the new directory it adds it to the main directory for the server

Code:

 cd /var/www/clients/client1/web1 

then i run

Code:

  sudo mkdir /ftp 

so it will create
/ftp

and not
/var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp


how can i do this..

i also tried adding this directory under apache for this site and still nothing

thanks in advance

kwick

 

If you do

Code:

  sudo mkdir /ftp 

it indeed creates directory /ftp, as that is exaclty what that command is commanded to do.
If you want to create a subdirectory to current working directory, leave out the / from the beginning of the directory name.
But if current working directory is

Code:

cd /var/www/clients/client1/web1 

I believe you should not create subdirectory there, it can not be accessed from the website. The files for website client1/web1 are in subdirectory web there. There already is subdirectory web/private, perhaps you could use that instead of creating new directories?
Or create

Code:

mkdir web1/web/ftp

if that is more suitable.
https://forum.howtoforge.com/thread...or-a-first-time-linux-user.83782/#post-399369

 

thank you for the reply. i do not want the directory to be accessed from the web directory. i want to secure it so it can not be seen or reached from the web directory trying to make it secure from people who try to find stuff in web directories

this is why i changed directories

Code:

 cd /var/www/clients/client1/web1 

then i tried to make the directory

Code:

 sudo mkdir /ftp

now my understanding is that should make

Code:

 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp 

it says it is made but it is not showing

thank you once again i should have been more clear on what i was trying to do



kwick

 

thank you for the reply. at first i did use /private. but whqt i was doing is using it as a mount point

Code:

 UUID=8056f03c-69c7-4255-9df6-b693    /var/www/clients/client1/web1/private 

everything was working great until another /private directory was made and i figure it was auto generated because i did not do it.. so now when i made a new ftp client and set there directory to

Code:

/var/www/clients/client1/web1/private

it would connect them to the new private directory and not the one i had used as a mount point to the drive..

but thank you for the info i will make a mount point inside of private



kwick