Amazon AWS Filezilla Transfer Permission Denied
Answer : 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 : chown -R ec2-user /var/www/html Make sure permissions on that entire folder were correct: 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 if you are using centOs then use sudo chown -R centos:centos /var/www/html sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html For Ubuntu sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /var/www/html sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html For Amazon ami sudo chown -R ec2-user:ec2-user /var/www/html sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html In my case the /var/www/html in not a directory but a symbolic link to the /var/app/current, so you should change the real directoy ie /var/app/current: sudo chown -R ec2-user /var/app/current sudo chmod -R 755 /var/app/current I hope th...