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.
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:~/.