This is usually your public-facing website). Cd public ssh · In Terminal, you can use the following command: touch public/ tar --exclude=public/ -of public/ .TGZ public/ If you choose the archive name with .TGZ as a separator, the archive will be compressed at a .tar.go format. For example, tar --exclude=public/ -of public/ .TGZ public/ tar --format=tar, gzip -of public/ .TGZ Your public/ folder will be created.