How do I edit my files?
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I have some changes I need to make to my stylesheet and template files, but the wordpress editor doesn’t do anything.
I read this in the faq:
I’m using the WordPress-on-S3 AMI, how can I edit files on the EC2 instance?
You can use ssh or PuTTY to log into the instance. You need to have the private key of the key pair that you’ve used to launch the instance. The ssh command would look like this:ssh -i your-keypar.pem [email protected]
The command will get you logged into the instance as the ec2-user. The ec2-user can execute the sudo command, so if you need superuser privileges, just prefix the desired command with sudo. The WordPress root is at /var/www/wordpress and the tree is owned by the apache user, so to edit files there, you must use sudo prefix, e.g. sudo nano /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php.
To copy files to the instance, you can use scp or PuTTY. The scp command would look like this:
scp -i your-keypar.pem foo.php [email protected]:.
The command will copy the file foo.php to the ec2-user’s home directory. Then you can log into the instance and copy the file to the desired location.
But I have no idea what any of this means or where to go to input these commands. Is this the only way I can make changes to my files?
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