Can not upload AWS mediawiki LocalSettings.php over with Filezilla

lmontgomery 2020-10-14 21:53:21 UTC #1

Keywords: Mediawiki - AWS - How to - Permissions
Description:
Hi I have a working bitname mediawiki running on AWS. I am able to ssh using the 'bitnami' user. But I do not want to edit with vi or vim (windows user here)

I have configured filezilla and been able to download /opt/bitnami/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php (and edit in vscode). But when time comes to upload the LoacalSetting.php file back to /opt/bitnami/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php, Filezilla responds "/bitnami/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php: open for write: permission denied".

I see that the Owner/Group of LocalSettings.php is r"oot root and not "bitnami". How best to proceed?

davidg 2020-10-15 10:49:19 UTC #2

Hello @lmontgomery,

You can not upload files to /opt/ using SFTP (only /home/ directory for security reason). Instead of this, you can use ssh, as suggested here:

https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/faq/get-started/connect-ssh/

sudo nano /opt/bitnami/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php

I hope it helps

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