How to Send Files from your localhost to Another Server through SSH

Objective: Upload Files/Folder from my local to server. (How to Send Files from your localhost to Another Server through SSH)

Challenge: I’m bored to use Filezilla. So just have to use putty or Git Bash or Windows Subsystem.

I have used Ubuntu Subsystem in my Windows 10 for SSH access.

Solution: Use Secure Copy Command from your local machine and login to server directly.

Command:

sudo scp -i key.pem -r /mnt/d/sourcefolder/ centos@52.14.25.48:/var/html/destination/

1. Sudo – So to not ask permission for each and every file.
2. scp – Secure Copy command to copy files between servers. you should use scp so it would use SSH for transferring files and would use authentication like password or pem key.
3. -i key.pem – this is the key for my server login authentication.
4. -r -recursive files/subfolders inside the folder.
5. /mnt/d/sourcefolder/ – Source folder in local.
6. centos@52.14.25.48: – user in the particular server and its IPv4. you can also use root or ubuntu.
7. /var/html/destination – Destination folder

Task Completed Successfully.

Note: Remember that the folder copied to the server is under the user centos/root/ubuntu.