How to push to git on EC2

Question

I am trying to follow this instruction. I have a local git repo and when I do a git push, I need the repo to be pushed to my EC2 instance.

But, in the above tutorial, when I do a git push origin master, I get Permission denied (publickey) error because I did not specify the identity file.

Say, I login to EC2 like this: ssh -i my_key.pem [email protected]

So, can I do something similar here to: git -i my_key.pem push origin master or set the identity file in .git/config

So, how can I set it up?

Update: Output of git config -l

user.name=my name [email protected] github.user=userid core.repositoryformatversion=0 core.filemode=true core.bare=false core.logallrefupdates=true core.ignorecase=true remote.origin.url=ec2_id@my_e2_ip_address:express_app remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* 

Update (from @Jon's comment):

If you have your key in an odd path just run ssh-add /private/key/path. This worked for me.

Answer 1

To copy your local ssh key to amazon try this

cat ~/.ssh/id_?sa.pub | ssh -i amazon-generated-key.pem ec2-user@amazon-instance-public-dns "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys" 

replacing the names of the key and amazon ec2 public dns, of course.

you will then be able to setup your remote on amazon

Answer 2

The instructions listed here were more useful to me.

From the link:

Adjust your ~/.ssh/config and add:

Host example Hostname example.com User myuser IdentityFile ~/.ssh/other_id_rsa 

Now use the ssh host alias as your repository:

$ git remote add origin example:repository.git $ git pull origin master 

And it should use the other_id_rsa key!