I have a micro ubuntu instance on ec2. I have done a passwd to set it to simple password. I have installed vsftpd on the ec2 instance. And imported the ec2 pem file via FileZilla-Settings-SFTP, and configured vsftpd.conf with following listen=YES anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES write_enable=YES local_umask=022 dirmessage_enable=YES use_localtime=YES xferlog_enable=YES connect_from_port_20=YES secure_chroot_dir=/var/run/vsftpd/empty pam_service_name=vsftpd rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/private/vsftpd.pem local_root=/home/ubuntu pasv_enable=YES pasv_max_port=12100 pasv_min_port=12000 port_enable=YES I am using username ubuntu, password that_i_set, port 21. I get the following error Error: Critical error Error: Could not connect to server