

$ sudo mkdir /home/programmer_1/ftp_files I will create a home directory for the FTP user.
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It completely depends upon the user rules, let’s give users only home directory access, what users will upload, update or download files there. Save the file and restart SSH service by following command $ sudo service sshd restart Step 4: Access Rights $ sudo vi /etc/ssh/sshd_configĪdd the following line to the file DenyUsers programmer_1 $ sudo adduser programmer_1Īs we will share only FTP access to the user (programmer_1), we have to modify SSH configuration file to prevent SSH access from the FTP user. Let’s create a user with user name programmer_1. Now you have to create user with proper access rights. It should be active now, and shows similar to the below.

Now run following commands $ sudo ufw allow 20:21/tcpĪfter firewall enable, check status again $ sudo ufw status In the security groups inbound rules, you have to add following rules.Īfter adding this port to security group, now you have to check firewall status by following command $ sudo ufw status When you are done using the FTP connection, click the Disconnect button in the top-right corner of the Cyberduck browser.$ sudo service vsftpd status Step 2 : Firewall Configuration.Most of the WordPress-related work that I use an FTP client for is in the wp-content directory, where I might edit theme or plugin files or access the uploads folder.If you have configured Cyberduck to work with a text editor, you can click the Edit button, represented by the pencil icon, and edit wp-config.php like I did in the SSH example.I know that the WordPress installation is located at /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs, so from the root directory I can twirl down the arrows of the directory structure to get to /htdocs and select the wp-config.php file.Click the drop-down menu displays your location and select another destination I have selected the top-level, or “root,” directory of the instance, /.Now that you have connected, you will see from the address bar at the top of the browser that you are in the bitnami directory ( /home/bitnami).(If you do want to check the fingerprint info, you can find it by looking through your EC2 instance’s System Log from the EC2 Dashboard.) If this is the first time connecting to the server, you will see an Unknown fingerprint pop-up window, not unlike the one you saw when you logged in for the first time over SSH.You have the option to include the private key in your macOS Keychain service.ssh directory is a standard location for storing SSH private keys.) ssh directory for the user, which is where I stored the test_234.pem key. If you click Choose…, a Finder window opens.Click Choose… if you want to select another private key. In this example, test_234.pem, the private key I previously used to connect over SSH using the command line, is included in the drop-down since I added the identity to the SSH agent using the ssh-add command. Click the drop-down menu for SSH Private Key. (This is the same username I used in the SSH tutorial.) My EC2 instance was created from the WordPress Certified by Bitnami and Automattic AMI (Amazon Machine Image), and from reading Bitnami’s own documentation, I know that the Username is bitnami. Enter the Username from your login credentials.You can get the IP address for your EC2 instance from the Public DNS (IPv4) field under the Description tab for your instance on the EC2 Dashboard.For example: .com (the actual address of your own EC2 instance will differ based on its IP address and availability zone). In the Server field, enter the address for your EC2 instance.Select SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) from the items in the drop-down menu. Click the drop-down menu at the top of the pop-up, which defaults to FTP (File Transfer Protocol).Click the Open Connection icon in the top-left corner of the Cyberduck browser.Open Cyberduck from the Applications folder.If you have already read and tried to follow along with the instructions in WordPress on Amazon EC2: Connect to an Instance via SSH, some of these steps will be familiar to you.I need the host address and login credentials for the server I am trying to connect to, including the private key needed to authenticate an SSH connection with the server.The FTP client I am using is called Cyberduck, but these instructions should be easy enough to use with another FTP client, such as FileZilla.In this tutorial I will go over the steps needed to access your WordPress files by connecting to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instance over FTP (or, more accurately, SFTP) using an FTP client. This is part of my Introduction to Hosting WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) tutorial. This article was originally created in 2018 and completely updated in May 2020.
