SCP Permission denied (publickey). on EC2 only when using -r flag on directories

Question

scp -r /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/keypairfile.pem uploads ec2-user@publicdns:/var/www/html

where uploads is a directory returns Permission denied (publicke

Answer 1

transferring file from local to remote host

scp -i (path of your key) (path for your file to be transferred) (username@ip):(path where file to be copied)

e.g scp -i aws.pem /home/user1/Desktop/testFile   ec2-user@someipAddress:/home/ec2-user/

P.S. - ec2-user@someipAddress of this ip address should have access to the destination folder in my case /home/ec2-user/