Amazon AWS Filezilla transfer permission denied

Question

I have my instance of the Amazon AWS running, the test page is up. I am trying to SFTP the files to the server to display my website. I have Filezilla connected to the AWS server but when I try to move the files from my local machine to the /var/www/html directory, it says permission denied. I just figured out I can move the files to the /home/ec2-user directory. So my files are on the server I guess. But when I try to move them from there to the /var/www/html directory, it still won't move them, permission denied. Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

If you want write access to the public web directory (/var/www/html) for an ec2-user, then enter this command in the Ubuntu terminal which is open on PuTTY: chown -R ec2-user /var/www/html Also, you have to provide permissions for the final directory (/html) and also the complete directory: chmod -R 755 /var/www/html