Deploying Codeigniter to AWS EBS

Hello everyone,

So basically I have this website that I've literally slaved over the last 3 months. I tried it using the localhost (XAMPP) and it works like a beauty. I thought I'd give AWS EBS a shot.

I created an instance and I uploaded the website files (.ZIP file - application folder, system folder, assets folder, and .htaccess). However it keeps throwing me a "Forbidden you do not have permission to access / on this server" error.

I've already tried changing the base url in the config file but to no avail. Any help would be most appreciated.