Problem using SFTP to copy files onto server
 

I am getting error stat : no such file or directory"
index.html file is thr on desktop of my ubuntu VM,
same error for folders.

"put Desktop/index.html" is the command m using

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I am learning how to use sftp to transfer files from my ubuntu machine to my webserver, I was following an online tutorial, I logged into my webserver using command " ssh sftp root@1.1.1.1".
then I went to var/www/html and according to tutorial i gave the command "sftp> put Desktop/index.html". which resulted in error "stat Desktop/index.html: No such file or directory". The file is there on my desktop and name is also correct.
My question is how can i solve this.
Thanks

Problem using SFTP to copy files onto server
 

I was trying to copy files from my ubuntu VM to my webserver using sftp, i logged into webserver using " ssh sftp root@1.1.1.1", went to var/www/html
and gave this command "sftp>put Desktop/index.html". thats where i got the error "stat Desktop/index.html: no such file or directory". How can i solve this.
The file name is correct and i also tried "put home/argo/Desktop/index.html".

Problem using SFTP to copy files onto server
 

Why no replies............

What is the output if you use the command

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Problem using SFTP to copy files onto server
 

nothing,
sftp> lls
sftp>

i am running it on VM(hyper-v) so i dont know how to copy paste it from thr, but nothing happend when i entered that command.

Ok, how about

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Problem using SFTP to copy files onto server
 

the output was "Local working directory: /root"

Ok, using the command prompt, go and look to see if you have either:

/root/Desktop/index.html

or

/root/home/argo/Desktop/index.html

which were the two files you attempted to put.

Problem using SFTP to copy files onto server
 

I opened a new console, cd Desktop, then pwd, output was /home/argo/Desktop.

But that's not what ssh is pointing at. Because you appear to be running ssh as root, it's pointing at /root, not your user home directory.

Either run ssh as a normal user (you), or check out the lcd command here:

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/sftp.htm

Problem using SFTP to copy files onto server
 

but root is the only user on my server at the moment, should i change the directory path to my desktop?

Which was not what I asked you to do. :)

I asked you to go and see if

/root/Desktop/index.html

or

/root/home/argo/Desktop/index.html

existed, so that you could understand what the problem was.

Might be worth a shot.