How to Edit Apache2.conf | Permission Denied - Amazon AWS (EC2)

Question

I'm trying upload the edited apache2.conf but getting File Permission Denied Error.

Status: Starting upload of O:\Users\Circle Radius\SRPL\apache2.conf
Command:    cd "/etc/apache2"
Response:   New directory is: "/etc/apache2"
Command:    put "O:\Users\Circle Radius\SRPL\apache2.conf" "apache2.conf"
Error:  /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: open for write: permission denied
Error:  File transfer failed

Solution

Based on the communication in comments, it is visible you use account which do not have proper permissions to write in /etc

The better and more secure way to accomplish your task is:

1. Upload the file (via ordinary user) in /var/tmp
2. Login to the terminal
3. Become root: sudo su -

4. Make a backup of the original file:

   cp /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf_original
   

5. Copy the new file:

   cp /var/tmp/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
   

6. Restart apache

Comments

[Romeo Ninov]

Directories /etc and below are owned by root. Are you authenticated with root when upload the config?

[Alok Yadav]

You need to be root in order to edit or move anything in /etc/ as @RomeoNinov commented above , you could try to upload that config in your home directory first and later try to move using sudo mv

[Arpit Mittal]

@RomeoNinov I'm accessing it using User - "ubuntu" is there any command which can help me grant the permission for this user so that i can update my apache2.conf directly from FTP

[Romeo Ninov]

@ArpitMittal, copy the file to /var/tmp and then via command line move it to the proper place. Do not play with permission in /etc

[Arpit Mittal]

@RomeoNinov Thank you so much for you help.. :)

[Buddhiprakash Kumawat]

If you don't want to upper process then i suggest you that you can edit this file in nano or vi editor and can edit it. // nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

[luisdev]

Restart Apache using: $ sudo service apache2 restart