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

If you want to upload the file /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/keypairfile.pem to ec2-user@publicdns:/var/www/html, you can simply do:

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

Where:

• -C - Compress data
• -r - Recursive