-bash var www html indexfile html Permission denied

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to append some data in /var/www/html in my EC2 instance. But it is showing me the below error.

$ sudo echo "Welcome" >> /var/www/html/indexfile.html
-bash: /var/www/html/indexfile.html: Permission denied

Can anyone help me to resolve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You have to give permission to your ec2-user using chmod command. You can use the below-given command.

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/indexfile.html
$ sudo echo "Welcome" >> /var/www/html/indexfile.html

I hope this will solve your error.