If you aren't comfortable working with a command line, making and testing changes in Islandora 8 can be tricky. The best way to test out your changes is to use an Islandora Virtual machine built from the claw-playbook, but once you get your VM up and running, getting access to the file system via a GUI is a challenge that requires a brief stint into the command line. If you have a GUI client you like to use (Cyberduck, WinSCP, etc), you can't just point it to your localhost and browse the file syste of your VM's Drupal.
If you are using VirtualBox, you can use the terminal wndow for your VM to login. Username vagrant, password vagrant. Once logged in, we need to chage some things to allow access via the GUI client of our choice. Type sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
and hit Enter. Using arrows keys to move your cursor around, scroll down until you see #PasswordAuthentication no
or `PasswordAuthentica