A shell script and sample target file to upload to an EC2 instance, which abstracts the tedious scp commands. Be sure to rename "example.target" to the name of your project, i.e. "foo.target". To run it, use "./upload example" to completely rewrite the remote directory, or use "./upload example file.html" to only rewrite a specific file, or use …

bash - ec2 upload

--- in example.target ---
WEB_LOCATION=1.2.3.4                # remote location
PEM_LOCATION=example.pem            # pem file location
DIR_LOCATION=/path/to/your/website  # directory location
REM_LOCATION=~/htdocs               # the directory on the server to write to
REM_USER=admin                      # change to the server's user account name

--- in upload ---

source $1.target

if [ -z $2 ]; then
   ssh -i $PEM_LOCATION $REM_USER@$WEB_LOCATION "rm -r $REM_LOCATION/*"
   scp -r -i $PEM_LOCATION $DIR_LOCATION/* $REM_USER@$WEB_LOCATION:$REM_LOCATION
elif [ $2 == "file" ]; then
   scp -r -i $PEM_LOCATION $DIR_LOCATION/$3 $REM_USER@$WEB_LOCATION:$REM_LOCATION/$3
elif [ $2 == "folder" ]; then
   scp -r -i $PEM_LOCATION $DIR_LOCATION/$3/* $REM_USER@$WEB_LOCATION:$REM_LOCATION/$3
elif [ -d "$DIR_LOCATION/$2" ]; then
   scp -r -i $PEM_LOCATION $DIR_LOCATION/$2/* $REM_USER@$WEB_LOCATION:$REM_LOCATION/$2
elif [ -f "$DIR_LOCATION/$2" ]; then
   scp -r -i $PEM_LOCATION $DIR_LOCATION/$2 $REM_USER@$WEB_LOCATION:$REM_LOCATION/$2
else
   echo "Invalid parameter."
fi