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connecting to AWS EC2 instance tutorial

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I am attempting to transfer my web application to an AWS EC2 instance. I am able to ftp to my AWS server using the command prompt. However when defining my site within Dreamweaver CC 2017 I am getting errors. Where is the tutorial for this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kurt

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Nancy, thanks for this feedback. I found some tutorials for using AWS/FileZilla and obtained the required .pem key file, per those instructions. FileZilla does connect but then fails attempting to obtain the directory structure. I sent a link to this thread to an Amazon engineer for comment. It is a shame I am unable to find a "transfer my files to your EC2" tutorial within the AWS training site.

The FTP client in Dreamweaver seems very weak to me. I am able to use it on my other hosted sites at other vendor's servers. AWS must be coping with security issues to make it so complicated.

Nancy OShea
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December 2, 2016

Amazon is a totally different beast from ordinary web hosts.  Lots of security layers, authentication, encryption keys, etc...  The learning curve can be quiet steep at first  but it gets easier with time.  AWS has improved their file uploader.  For me, it's much faster than SFTP.  And the panel provides easy access to the various advanced options.

Nancy

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I got this from an AWS engineer:

**************************************************************************************

Hi Kurt,

I downloaded FileZilla and tested
it against my test Windows EC2 FTP instance.

Worked like a charm. 
Very fast… faster than WinSCP.

There were some security group
settings that I had to make in order to have either WinSCP or FileZilla work.

Those are:

Protocol/Port/Source

TCP      
21           [my ip address]

TCP
     
49152-65535       [my ip address]

You then need to make sure that
the settings on your FTP service are correct.

*********************************************************************

I checked my AWS instance security group settings and we had previously added a slightly wider range just as seen in his example. Perhaps that is why I can old school command prompt ftp no issues. I am still unable to use FileZilla. One thing he did point out is that the youTube tutorials for AWS/Filezilla are NOT on Win OS. So, no .prm file is required!

I deleted my two ftp sites, one for a static site and one for my GIS dynamic site. I created one new ftp site connected to the root folder of my static html site. Still FileZilla connects, attempts to obtain the file structure, and then disconnects. I assume he means the IIS ftp  site settings, which I left at default.

If all this effort fails, I'll shut up and use the embedded AWS tool.

Thanks again, Nancy.

Kurt

Nancy OShea
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December 2, 2016

I also use Amazon for hosting assets used by my web sites.  It's not possible to upload files to Amazon with Dreamweaver or Filezilla FTP client.  This is an Amazon thing. The procedure is to log-in to your AWS account and use Amazon's proprietary file uploader.  

Nancy 

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Nancy OShea wrote:

I also use Amazon for hosting assets used by my web sites. It's not possible to upload files to Amazon with Dreamweaver or Filezilla FTP client. This is an Amazon thing. The procedure is to log-in to your AWS account and use Amazon's proprietary file uploader.

Nancy

Unfortunately, this is incorrect information. You most certainly can use an FTP client to SSH into an EC2 instance using a .pem file and upload your website files. A quick search on Google will show you many articles that explain the process. You can also use FTP client to upload to an S3 bucket using an AWS key and secret. Are you using an EC2 instance like the OP asked about or are you simply uploading static files to an S3 bucket to use through CloudFront? It looks like you have a lot to learn about AWS.

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