I completed building a website using ReactJs & node. trying to host it on aws lightsail. When I tried to connect server with SSH key (from lightsail) in Putty, the error occurs as below.
"Server refused our key"
I tried to follow all the step from this amazon lightsail docs when working on Putty: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en/articles/lightsail-how-to-set-up-putty-to-connect-using-ssh
Anyone experienced this issue, please help! Thanks
Check out if you are using the correct key pair. On the AWS console click on the instance, and on the first tab(Connect) there should be a sentence like "You configured this instance to use default (us-east-1) key pair."
Unfortunately if you lost the key you cant download it again. It is easier to just delete the instance and create a new one, in the process you will be able to download the correct key.
Before connect please make sure ownership of the key into the user directory.
For example: if you are using ubuntu as username and this path for your authorized key /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys.
Set owner of this file to Ubuntu, using following command:
sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /home/ubuntu/.ssh/authorized_keys
I am sure that will fix your issue.
You can go to profile and download the default key-pair and try connecting with that, also you can check what user you are using. Normally for node, "bitnami" is the user.
