Amazon Ec2 Ftp Write Permission

Amazon Ec2 FTP Write Permission

The ec2-user don't have permission to write files in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/. Only root user can do so. You have two ways here to do so:

1) Copy files to /home/ec2-user/ using filezilla. Now SSH into linux machine through putty. Change to root user using command sudo -s. Then copy file from /home/ec2-user to /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ using command cp -i RealEstateERP.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/.

2) SSH into linux machine through putty.Change to root user using command sudo -s.Provide write permission to all users on /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ using command chmod 777 /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/. Then copy files to directory directly from filezilla.

Amazon AWS Filezilla transfer permission denied

To allow user ec2-user (Amazon AWS) write access to the public web directory (/var/www/html),

enter this command via Putty or Terminal, as the root user sudo:

sudo chown -R ec2-user /var/www/html

Make sure permissions on that entire folder were correct:

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html

Doc's:

Setting up amazon ec2-instances

Connect to Amazon EC2 file directory using Filezilla and SFTP (Video)

Understanding and Using File Permissions

AWS EC2 FTP Permission Denied

This is a permission issue. Use this command.

sudo rm var/www/info.php

Giving write permission back to Wordpress on AWS EC2 via PuTTY

Fixed:
I wound up adding

echo(exec("whoami"));die();

to the top of my WordPress index.php file to figure out the user. Make sure to remove it once you're done.

Lets say my username wound up being "foo".

After I had the username, I went back into PuTTY, and ran

sudo chown -R foo /var/app

and can now modify files through wordpress again.

EC2 user permissions

This is a pure Linux permission problem, not an AWS problem.
I just created an Amazon Linux instance and verified permissions in /var

 [ec2-user@ip-1-1-1-174 ~]$ ls -ald /var/www
 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Oct 22 23:34 /var/www

As you see, ownership is root and not ec2-user. You should understand first what / why you see permission on /var/www/ to ec2-user

Should need to change the owner of that directory again, you can type :

 chown -R root:root /var/www

It is not a best practice to let your web server (httpd) write to /var/www nor to run that process with elevated privileges (such as root).
Should your app really write to the local storage, use a different volume, mounted in a separate directory, where no executable are available.

How can I use Filezilla and vsftpd to write to an AWS EC2 instance of Ubuntu 14.04?

If you want to be able to modify files in your web directories, try changing the ownership (instead of the mode) by doing this:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/html

The $USER variable will take the value of the user you are currently logged in as.

By doing this, your regular (non root) user now owns the html subdirectories where you are trying to move files into.

It probably a good idea to also modify permissions a little bit to ensure that read access is permitted to the general web directory and all of the files and folders it contains so that pages can be served correctly, use:

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www

Your web server should now have the permissions it needs to serve content, and your user should be able to create content within the necessary folders

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