Rsync to Amazon Ec2 Instance

Question

I have an EC2 instance running and I am able to SSH into it.

However, when I try to rsync, it gives me the error Permission denied (publickey).

The command I'm using is:

rsync -avL --progress -e ssh -i ~/mykeypair.pem ~/Sites/my_site/* [email protected]:/var/www/html/

I also tried

rsync -avz ~/Sites/mysite/* -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub" [email protected]:/var/www/html/

Answer 1

So, you can put your ssh statements inside quotations and also use the full path to the private key. Try to use the full path wherever required.

rsync -avL --progress -e "ssh -i /path/yourkeypair.pem" \

       ~/Sites/my_site/* \ 

       [email protected]:/var/www/html/

This will surely help you.