There will be a dialogue box to ask you about “Unknown host key”, just click “OK”. For RHEL5, the user name is often root but might be ec2-user. User: For Amazon Linux, the default user name is ec2-user. Host: Your public DNS name of ec2 instance, or the public IP address of the server

Then Open Site Manager and Add a new site. If not, then click “Add keyfile…” and select the converted file. If the new file is shown in the list of Keyfiles, then continue to the next step. Click Yes, then give the file a name and store it somewhere. pem file and select it.Ī message box will appear asking your permission to convert the file into ppk format. Open FileZilla and Got to Edit/Preferences > Settingsīrowse to the location of your. Here is how to connect to Amazon Instance using. However for Amazon instance, we use key-pair to log in instead of password for better safety. If you want to use FileZila to upload to or download data from a normal FTP server if you have the user and password, just put the information in the “Host”, “Username”, “Password” box and connect.

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