Title: Installing WordPress in Google Cloud Platform
Last modified: November 14, 2019

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# Installing WordPress in Google Cloud Platform

 *  [Dave Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dave-young/)
 * (@dave-young)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-in-google-cloud-platform/)
 * I’m migrating an existing WP site from another host to a VM Instance on Google
   Cloud Platform. I have backed up all WP files locally, logged into the GCP file
   structure via FTP, and am ready to upload. Question is: which of the 4 folders
   created during the setup is the root for WP. The 4 choices are: highest level
   folder and apparent root on GCP (identified only with a “?”), next level down
   is a folder named “home”, and 2 third-level folders named “admin” and “dave” (
   that’s me). I tried uploading to “home” already and the upload failed completely.
   Thought I would ask here before I tried any other folder since each upload takes
   over 40 minutes, then another 40 minutes to delete the files if it doesn’t work.
   Any info would be appreciated.

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 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-in-google-cloud-platform/#post-12128113)
 * Well, just a guess but, I imagine the two lowest level accounts are users created
   by whatever Google uses as a control panel (or the admin did it)…
 * My guess is the top level or the one you tried already that didn’t work…
 * If it was me I’d probably ask Google support though if it’s not documented.
 * You could visit the host via the IP address or domain name with a web browser
   to see what you get. You should see an index of the directory or an index.html.
   Modify via FTP the index.html there or add one if you get a directory listing
   and watch for your change(s). Now you’ll know your public directory exists and
   which one it is.
 *  Anonymous User 15658635
 * (@anonymized-15658635)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-wordpress-in-google-cloud-platform/#post-12382813)
 * If you are hosting your site on Compute Engine using Google Deploy then the main
   root folder would be : /var/www/html/

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 * [google cloud](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/google-cloud/)

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