To connect the Amimoto instance with an SFTP client, you need an application of SFTP and a secret key file of the instance(.pem).
You can connect the instance with the ec2-user user, but the directory which WordPress is placed in, /var/www/vhosts, is owned by the nginx user who runs the web server, so you can’t upload files here with the ec2-user user.
- Reference: How to SSH as nginx-user
This post describes how to change the running user of Nginx and php-fpm, also make the ec2-user user upload files and so on.
1. Change the running user of nginx and php-fpm to ec2-user (only after instance creation)
- Reference: How to run Nginx, php-fpm as ec2-user
First, open /opt/local/amimoto.json file, replace the contents with the following:
{
"nginx" : { "config" : { "user" : "ec2-user" } },
"php" : { "config" : { "user" : "ec2-user" } },
"run_list" : [ "recipe[amimoto]" ]
}
For AMIMOTO HHVM version, rewrite as follows:
{
"nginx" : { "config" : { "user" : "ec2-user" } },
"php" : { "config" : { "user" : "ec2-user" } },
"hhvm" : { "enabled" : true, "config" : { "user" : "ec2-user" } },
"run_list" : [ "recipe[amimoto]" ]
}
Then run /opt/local/provision with root privileges.
$ sudo /opt/local/provision
Upon completion, change the owner of /var/www/vhosts for the ec2-user user to operate the directory.
$sudo chown -R ec2-user:nginx /var/www/vhosts
2. Connect with (S)FTP Client Software
Server connection settings
- Server: Instance IP Address
- Username: ec2-user
- Secret key
- Path: /var/www/vhosts/ {instance name (optional) }
- Connection method (Port): SFTP (22)
Examples of (S)FTP Client Software connection:
An example below is Cyberduck, enter the server information, check “Use Public Key Authentication” and choose private key (.pem) when prompted.
