Uploading packages to AWS server

[Zellephant]

Hi guys, hoping someone can help me out here.

I’m busy trying to set up a TAK server hosted on AWS (ec2) cloud server.

I need to download and install the .deb packages from the tak.gov website, but I can’t figure out how to upload the files onto the server from my computer.

I can connect to the server via console perfectly fine, and run scripts etc, install packages and all that, but I can’t seem to get the server to connect to my files program. Is there something I need to set specifically on the AWS instance to allow file transfer or what?

For what it’s worth. I have tried this on an iPad and on my Mac. I haven’t tried using a windows PC yet.

 

[Sinbad]

Hi guys, hoping someone can help me out here.

I’m busy trying to set up a TAK server hosted on AWS (ec2) cloud server.

I need to download and install the .deb packages from the tak.gov website, but I can’t figure out how to upload the files onto the server from my computer.

I can connect to the server via console perfectly fine, and run scripts etc, install packages and all that, but I can’t seem to get the server to connect to my files program. Is there something I need to set specifically on the AWS instance to allow file transfer or what?

For what it’s worth. I have tried this on an iPad and on my Mac. I haven’t tried using a windows PC yet.

Why not download the files directly to the EC2 server instead?

AWS rapidly turns into a minefield of security groups and NACLs for anything that's not a very simple template.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Just wget/curl the files from the web server onto the box from the command line would be the simplest.

Otherwise you can also just rsync or sftp over SSH.

iPad is near impossible to do this on, but pretty simple stuff using Terminal on a Mac. Termius app I think supports SFTP but it's unnecessarily complicated for this.

 

[Zellephant]

Yep, realised this is going to be impossible to do on iPad (which sucks - was sitting at the airport lounge and the files were already on my iPad).

But I managed to upload to google drive, create shared link and then downloaded in CMD to the web server.

I couldn’t find a download link direct off the web site.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Yep, realised this is going to be impossible to do on iPad (which sucks - was sitting at the airport lounge and the files were already on my iPad).

But I managed to upload to google drive, create shared link and then downloaded in CMD to the web server.

I couldn’t find a download link direct off the web site.

Usually the easiest way is just to download it in your browser and then go to the Downloads screen and grab the link there. Sometimes you need to be quick and pause it or pull some tricks like that depends on the browser.