{"id":56946,"date":"2016-09-14T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/?p=56946"},"modified":"2021-04-30T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T13:13:32","slug":"setup-ftp-sftp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silicondales.com\/tutorials\/aws-ec2\/setup-ftp-sftp\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup FTP (FTPS (not SFTP)) on an AWS EC2 Instance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Below are the commands required to setup FTP<\/a> (well, FTPS<\/a> in fact, and specifically not SFTP<\/a>, which you can most easily use by adding your security certificate to your FTP program and accessing over SSH<\/a>) on your AWS EC2<\/a> cloud instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m assuming you use the AWS flavour of Linux<\/a>. If you do not use AWS Linux, and you use, say, Ubuntu<\/a>, or Lightsail, please note… your mileage may vary. In plain English, this means, do not expect commands for one type of Linux to work in another. They may not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you use Ubuntu or whatever, file locations, commands, and other such will more than likely be different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have added in some commentary which may or may not help for the novice \/ intermediate user. I’m trying to bring you up to speed with what commands do, as a lot of tutorials assume knowledge which may or may not exist in the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This description, below, will allow you to add simple, or secure (FTPS – secured by vsftpd) FTP to your Amazon Linux AWS EC2 instance. This can often be useful to do things such as allowing service providers or third parties to drop files into a directory to which they are “chrooted”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please ignore anything you already know, and complain like fury in the comments where I’ve explained anything wrong \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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