# Sync website files to home server
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 13, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974 "2018-08-13T11:26:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Tegra](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tegra)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/1 "2018-08-13T11:26:58Z")
Is it possible to set up Syncthing to sync my website files on my cents vps to my home server on a Linux box running cents as well?
I saw and read about how it creates a URL to setup the sync but I don’t want that open to the world. So how would I do it using ssh?
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/2 "2018-08-13T12:05:06Z")
No idea what you mean by creating an URL. Syncthing communicates with its own protocol over tcp. You need a way to discover the other device (local/global discovery or fixed IP) and an open port (forwarded or upnp) on one of the two devices (usually port 22000) to sync - nothing is exposed. To access the web UI on the vps, you can either expose it secured with a login or create an ssh tunnel to access it “locally”.
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### Author:  [@Tegra](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tegra)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/3 "2018-08-13T13:39:02Z")
What i mean buy accessing it url. I mean that one you install it there is a gui to access and make changes and so on. So I dont want that access available to the world because its not password protected.
How would I access it with a ssh tunnel locally ? I am not sure what you mean by that.
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### Author:  [@AudriusButkevicius](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/AudriusButkevicius)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/4 "2018-08-13T13:46:07Z")
I think there are some explanations about ssh tunnels in the docs, yet it requires it to be setup in a certain way I think.
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/5 "2018-08-13T13:53:07Z")
I don’t know about the docs, but it’s just a regular ssh tunnel. By default the Syncthing UI is accessible at `localhost:8384`, so on the homeserver you’d run something like `ssh -fN -L 8385:*yourVPSIP*:8384` and then you can access the Syncthing UI belonging to the VPS on the homeserver at `localhost:8385`.
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### Author:  [@Tegra](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tegra)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/6 "2018-08-13T14:07:39Z")
Not really good with ssh only basics. What does the -fN -L do ?
So are you saying from my home server via gui I will be able to connect to my VPS like if i was logged in my VPS ?
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/7 "2018-08-13T14:58:25Z")
What do you want to do - access the VPS Syncthing UI without logging into the VPS and without exposing the UI?
`-L` is the main thing, it establishes the forwarding. `-fN` makes it go to the background and without executing a command (`man ssh` can tell you all about that).
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### Author:  [@Tegra](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tegra)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/8 "2018-08-13T16:34:22Z")
I looked around and didnt see a way to install this on CentOs. Can you help ?
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/9 "2018-08-13T16:57:38Z")
“This” as in Syncthing? [https://docs.syncthing.net/users/contrib.html#fedora-centos](https://docs.syncthing.net/users/contrib.html#fedora-centos)
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### Author:  [@Tegra](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tegra)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/10 "2018-08-13T17:38:03Z")
Thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-website-files-to-home-server/11974/12 "2018-10-03T23:44:07Z")
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