How to transfer zip file to aws ec2 from local machine?

Question

I have written APIs in php, and I want to upload the API to an Amazon EC2 instance.

• How can I upload it in the form of zip file?
• How can I extract the zip on the EC2 instance?
• How to access them?

Answer 1

First is how to upload in the form of zip file,

You can use scp command to transfer files from local machine to your EC2 server

scp -i your.pem yourzip ec2-user@yourEC2IP:/tmp

and then how i can extract zip at ec2.

You can use unzip command on your ec2 instance

unzip yourzip

Finally how to access them

Your API package must be deployed in a web container. Once your web application is deployed and your web container is running, make sure the port is opened for your access form the Security Groups. This is a brief answer because providing all the steps is no practical, maybe do a bit of reading and research.