Amazon Ec2 FTP Write Permission error

Question

I am able to successfully connect to amazon ec2 instance using Filezilla. The username I used is ec2-user. So, when I try to transfer my application war to tomcat it says

/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/RealEstateERP.war: open for write: permission denied Error: File transfer failed.

I tried to change permission to use FileZilla but am still getting the error. So, how do I resolve the error?

Answer 1

The ec2-user don't have permission to write files in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/. Only the 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 the 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.