Access your machine

Server properties

When connecting remotely to your machine, you need to know two basic properties: server domain name and credentials. You can find them both in your server Manage section.

In the example below you can find the server public IP address, public DNS name, Application Login and Application Password.

If you click Connect, then you will get an info about SSH login and private key.

Services

• login: bitnami
• You need to use private ssh key (more info)
• port: 22
• More info

• login: bitnami
• You need to use private ssh key (more info)
• port: 22

• login: root
• password: <user defined> (default: auto-generated more info)

• login: postgres
• password: <user defined> (default: auto-generated more info)

Ports

BitNami Cloud Hosting by default opens the following ports for each server: 22, 80 and 443.

How to open an additional server port

BitNami Cloud Hosting by default opens the following ports for each server: 22, 80 and 443.  You are able to add more ports if you need.

If you want to open a port, you should:

1. Go to the Servers section, select your machine and click "Manage" button. Then click 'Firewall' tab.
2. If your server was created recently, then you will see two buttons:
   Add Custom Firewall Rules - will allow you to add / remove firewall rules which are applied only to this particular instance. This option may not be available for old BitNami Cloud Hosting machines.
   Edit Default Firewall Rules - will let you modify the main AWS Security Group. Please note that any changes here will affect all your servers launched with this BitNami Cloud Hosting cloud account and running in the same AWS region as the current instance.
3. You can enter the port number (1-65535) or the range of ports (<from port>-<to port>) and the protocol (tcp / udp).
4. Optionally, you can restrict the access for a specific IP, modifying the Source IP from everyone (0.0.0.0/0) to (<ip value>/32). 

Uploading files

We describe the most popular SFTP clients below. Other FTP clients may be used if they have support for SFTP (Secure FTP). In this case you should set "22" as the port number in the configuration.

You can download the FileZilla Client application from: http://filezilla-project.org/

You should follow these steps to upload files:

1. Get your SSH Key in PPK format: Learn more
2. Start FileZilla
3. Go to edit -> preferences
4. Select SFTP 
5. Click "Add keyfile" 
6. Select the PPK file 
7. Save the settings (click OK in settings window) 
8. In the connection toolbar, enter:
   1. Host: the Public DNS ( xyz.bitnamiapp.com / ec2-xwz.compute-1.amazonaws.com) 
   2. User: 'bitnami' 
   3. Password: leave it blank 
   4. Port: 22
9. Click "Quickconnect" 
10. If you get a message "The server's host key is unknown", click "ok" button 

First, get your SSH key in PPK format: Learn more

Once you have it, use the settings like it is shown in the image below.

This guide describes how to connect using Cyberduck FTP client for OS X but you can use a different one. First, it is necessary to download your private key in PEM format. You can download it from the "Manage" option in BitNami Cloud Hosting.

If you have started a server, you can try to connect using SFTP. Open a new connection and specify this protocol.

Then, open the "More options" tag and enable the "Use Public Key Authentication" option. In this case you should specify the path to your private key that you downloaded previously (bitnami-hosting.pem by default).

Then copy your server domain name, specify the Username: "bitnami" and it is not necessary to specify any password.

The files for each application can be found in /opt/bitnami/apps: 

http://wiki.bitnami.org/BitNami_Cloud_Hosting/FAQ#Where_are_my_apps_installed.3f

Editing files

Editing files as root user (administrator).

WinSCP

If you are using winSCP to connect to your instance you can do the following for edit files as root user. Once you have configured the connection as it is described here. You can click on "Advanced options" -> "Environment" -> "SCP/Shell" -> "sudo su -". Please make sure that you select the SCP protocol in the Session section.

Nano

Another option is to use "nano" editor in the server console: 

1. Connect to your server via SSH.  More info
2. Execute nano as follows: 

$ sudo nano /path/to/the/file

3. Perform any changes in the file
4. Press "CTRL+X" to exit the editor (it will ask if you want to save the changes, enter 'Y' to apply them)

Learn more about nano editor

$ sudo chown -R bitnami:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/your_plugin_directory
$ sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/your_plugin_directory

SSH access

Learn more at this page: SSH

Give SSH access to the another person or your customer

It is better if you ask your customer to send you his own public ssh key generated on Linux/Unix/OS X, this way you can give him an access to your machine without sharing your private keys.
Copy this file my_customer_public_ssh_key to your server.

Now you have two options:

• you can create a separate account for him (RECOMMENDED)
• or just allow him to log into the server using the 'bitnami' account

sudo useradd -s /bin/bash -o -u `id -u` -G `id -g` new_username

sudo mkdir ~new_username/ 
sudo cp -rp ~bitnami/.ssh ~new_username/
sudo cp -rp ~bitnami/.bashrc ~new_username/
sudo cp -rp ~bitnami/.profile ~new_username/

cat ~/my_customer_public_ssh_key >> /home/new_username/.ssh/authorized_keys

ssh-keygen -t rsa

$ cp /home/bitnami/.ssh/authorized_keys /home/bitnami/.ssh/authorized_keys.bak

$ cat ~/my_customer_public_ssh_key >> /home/bitnami/.ssh/authorized_keys

$ cp /home/bitnami/.ssh/authorized_keys.bak /home/bitnami/.ssh/authorized_keys