Unable to copy contents of Wordpress directory to root

[geekyfreaky]

I'm a total newbie at this! I have a virtual machine running Debian 9. I have LAMP installed.

I am following the instructions at this link to install WordPress: https://www.adminbyaccident.com/gnu-lin ... amp-stack/

I am now at this step:

We now copy the contents of the wordpress directory to the web server root.

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albert@debian:~/wordpress$ sudo cp -a ~/wordpress/* /var/www/html
[sudo] password for albert:
albert@debian:~/wordpress$

However, when I try this (I don't use "sudo" because it's not installed on Debian by default), I get the following error message:

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root@debianlinux:/home/lanalee# cp -a ~/wordpress/* /var/www/html
cp: cannot stat '/root/wordpress*': No such file or directory

Someone please help me!!! Thank you so much.

[4D696B65]

I am following the instructions at this link to install WordPress: https://www.adminbyaccident.com/gnu-lin ... amp-stack/

Any reason you don't use the debian way?
https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress

[geekyfreaky]

I am following the instructions at this link to install WordPress: https://www.adminbyaccident.com/gnu-lin ... amp-stack/

Any reason you don't use the debian way?
https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress

Used that link as a recommendation from an IT person I know.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

[bw123]

means file is not present at path you told cp to find it at.
https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=cp+cannot+stat

nobody knows were you untarred it to, try this
https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=linux+cli+find

[Bulkley]

Any ideas on how to proceed?

Go to the link that 4D696B65 gave you. Start at step 1, Packages Installation and follow directions.

[GarryRicketson]

Agreed, it would be better to follow the link to the debian wiki, ...
It looks to me , some how when you login as root, you switch to root's home:
/root

cp: cannot stat '/root/wordpress*': No such file or directory

You must be in the directory where the file is, or have the right path to it, in the cp command.
You can verify what directory you are actually in with the 'pwd' command.
'man pwd' for details. It also might be to your advantage to look at 'man cp ' as well,
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garry% ksh
garry$ pwd
/home/garry
garry$ login root
Password:
garry# pwd
/root
garry# 
 

As you can see when I logged in as root, it changes to root's home dir. How did you get root access, if you can not use sudo ? Normally using 'su', would not change directories, but that has changed on Debian, now you need to use 'su - ' ..In any event, it is all ways good to check what dir you are in, that is what 'pwd' is for.

[Segfault]

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root@debianlinux:/home/lanalee# cp -a ~/wordpress/* /var/www/html

Well, as seen here the files are in /home/lanalee, but the command as used will look for them in /root/wordpress/. That's incorrect use of '~'.