# Application Files after Digital Ocean Setup

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/application-files-after-digital-ocean-setup/126005>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [August 16, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/application-files-after-digital-ocean-setup/126005 "2019-08-16T17:59:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/application-files-after-digital-ocean-setup/126005/1 "2019-08-16T17:59:50Z")

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We successfully installed Discourse on Digital Ocean, everything works well, but we can’t for the life of us find where the actual discourse files are. We wanted to test some modifications and build some plugins, but we can’t find any files. We used Filezilla to log into the site. However, we can’t actually find any of the Discourse application files anywhere, e.g. discourse/app. We went into the var/discourse folder and nothing. Then var/discourse/containers and nothing. We did SSH .launcher enter app, and we can see our files in the terminal are located in var/www, but this directly doesn’t exist when we log into the server. We tried var/lib/docker/containers and nothing. Where exactly are the discourse files located? Thanks.

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