Using scp to copy a file to Amazon EC2 instance

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I am trying to use my Mac Terminal to scp a file from Downloads  phpMyAdmin I downloaded online  to my Amazon EC2 instance    The command I used was   scp -i myAmazonKey pem phpMyAdmin-3 4 5-all-languages tar gz  hk22 mec2-50-17-16-67 compute-1 amazonaws com       The error I got   Warning  Identity file myAmazonKey pem not accessible  No such file or directory  Permission denied  publickey   lost connection  Both my myAmazonkey pem and phpMyAdmin-3 4 5-all-languages tar gz are in Downloads  so then I tried   scp -i  Users Hello Kitty22 Downloads myAmazonKey pem  Users Hello Kitty22 Downloads phpMyAdmin-3 4 5-all-languages tar gz  hk22 mec2-50-17-16-67 compute-1 amazonaws com       and the error I got  Warning  Identity file  User Hello Kitty22 Downloads myAmazonkey pem not accessible  No such file or directory  Permission denied  publickey   lost connection  Can anyone please tell me how to fix my problem   p s  there is a similar post  scp  secure copy  to ec2 instance without password but it doesn t answer my question

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Below SCP format works for me  scp -i  path my-key-pair pem ec2-user ec2-198-51-100-1 compute-1 amazonaws com   SampleFile txt   SampleFile2 txt   SampleFile txt  It will be the path from your root directory In my case   home ubuntu   in my case the file which I wanted to download was at  var www  SampleFile2 txt  It will be path of your machine s root path In my case   home MyPCUserName   So  I have to write below command  scp -i  path my-key-pair pem ec2-user ec2-198-51-100-1 compute-1 amazonaws com         var www Filename zip   Downloads

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Here are the details of what works for an EC2 instance   scp -i  path to whatever pem  users me path-to-file ec2-user ec2-55-55-555-555 compute-1 amazonaws com     Few notes for beginning    Note the spaces between the three parameters given after the -i scp stands for secure copy protocol  Knowing the words makes it easier to remember the command  -i dictates that you need to give the  pem file as the next param  If there is no -i  than you do not need a  pem  Note the    at the end of the destination for the EC2 instance

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Send file from Local to Server      scp -i  ssh awsinstance pem my local file   ubuntu XX XXX XXX XXX  home ubuntu   Download file from Server to Local      scp -i  ssh awsinstance pem    ubuntu XX XXX XXX XXX  home ubuntu server file

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scp -i   path to pem file file pem -r for directory   PATH OF LOCAL localfile user hostname PATH OF SERVER serverdirectory

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This just worked for me  I used a combination of two other answers to this question    scp -i  Users me documents myKP pem -r  Users me desktop testDir          ec2-user ec2-11-111-11-11 compute-1 amazonaws com  home ec2-user remoteDir   The  ec2-user ec2-11-111-11-11 compute-1 amazonaws com  is copy-and-pasted from your ec2 instance s public DNS

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First you should change the mode of  pem file from read and write mode to read only mode  This can be done just by a single command in terminal sudo chmod 400 your public key pem

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second directory is your target destination  don t use server name there  In other words  you don t need to mention machine name for the machine you re currently in   scp -i  path to your  pemkey -r  copy from path user server  copy to path   -r if it s a directory

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The process of using SCP to copy files from a local machine to an AWS EC2 Linux instance is covered step-by-step  including the points mentioned below  in this video   To correct this particular issue with using SCP    You need to specify the correct Linux user  From Amazon    For Amazon Linux  the user name is ec2-user   For RHEL  the user name is ec2-user or root   For Ubuntu  the user name is ubuntu or root   For Centos  the user name is centos   For Fedora  the user name is ec2-user   For SUSE  the user name is ec2-user or root   Otherwise  if ec2-user and root don t work  check with your AMI provider    Your private key must not be publicly visible  Run the following command so that only the root user can read the file   chmod 400  path to yourKeyFile pem

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Try specifying the user to be ec2-user  e g   scp -i myAmazonKey pem phpMyAdmin-3 4 5-all-languages tar gz ec2-user mec2-50-17-16-67 compute-1 amazonaws com       See Connecting to Linux UNIX Instances Using SSH

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I tried all the suggestions mentioned above and nothing worked  I terminated the current instance  launched another one and repeated the same exact process  This time no problems  Sometimes it might be the remote ami s fault

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I had exactly same problem  my solution was to  scp -i  path pem -r  path file  ec2-user public aws dns name   leave it blank here    once you done this part  get into ssh server and mv file to desired location

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Check the permissions on the  pem file   openssh usually doesn t like world-readable private keys  and will fail  iir  scp doesn t do a great job of providing this feedback to the user    Can you simply ssh with that key to your AWS host

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Your key must not be publicly viewable for SSH to work  Use this command if needed   chmod 400 yourPublicKeyFile pem

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I would use   scp -i  path to  pem file   file to be copeide from local machine  username amazoninstance   destination folder to copy file on remote machine

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You should be on you local machine to try the above scp command   On your local machine try   scp -i   Downloads myAmazonKey pem   Downloads phpMyAdmin-3 4 5-all-languages tar gz  hk22 mec2-50-17-16-67 compute-1 amazonaws com

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SCP Commend  Send File from Local To Remote Server sudo scp -i    Downloads new bb key pem   dump zip  ubuntu 13 127 124 129     Send File from Remote Server To Local sudo scp -i    Downloads new bb key pem  ubuntu 13 127 124 129  home ubuntu LatestDBdump zip Downloads

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