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Asked: 2026-05-20T10:03:53+00:00

I recently signed up for an Amazon EC2 server, and plan to upload my

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I recently signed up for an Amazon EC2 server, and plan to upload my website to an Instance I created.

I prefer to use WinSCP over SSH, but installed PHP, MySql, and httpd on my instance through Putty.

I am having trouble figuring out the next steps to take in order for me to upload my HTML/CSS/Images/PHP files onto the server for use. I already have my domain pointing to my Elastic IP on my EC2. Is it now just about creating a public_html folder in my root user/ec2 directory and uploading my site there?

Thanks for any tidbits as I am having trouble finding the resources online.

EDIT: I also have ElasticFox installed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use WinSCP with the same keys you use to authenticate putty. In the session there is a file chooser box entitled “Private key file”. Drop the ppk file in there and you’ll be able to connect.
    See http://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_login_authentication

    In terms of where to put the files, it depends on the flavour of your amazon image. If it’s Ubuntu, for example, once you install apache2 (sudo apt-get install apache2), the default web directory is /var/www.

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