SFTP is kind of half implemented here. I had this issue with MacOS and now with Linux VPS. I need to be able to browse and see the whole root directory so I can point the software to store site files at specific places. Rapidweaver has no issues with this so I would expect the same behavior once I log in as root.
Not sure what you’re asking, but if you logged in as root, that’s the home directory of root, usually /root.
If you specify just /, you should see the full filesystem.
I would not recommend logging in as root though. I use my own user, and make sure to add a directory as document root where both the web server user (apache or www or what your setup uses) has read access and my user has write access … (If you need upload from web app, or use f.ex. VoltCMS, the web server user must have write access.)
Usually you set the start (drop-in) directory at your host for your SFTP account.
Are you entering in a sub directory, if so how many levels deep?
This is exactly what is happening. Login as root gets me just root home directory not the whole drive, but specifying /var/www/clients/ and so on does not get me to where I want to be. Rapidweaver like I said works fine so there is something in Blocs that is not doing as it is supposed to when managing SFTPs.
yes, directory is specified /var/www/clients/… and so on.