scp command - connection refused

[sujitrjadhav]

I wish to automate a daily activity of uploading a specific file to a specific location at mywebsite. On google searching I found scp is command to get my work done
but when I run scp I get following output.

scp myfile.pdf myusername@ftp.mywebsite.com:/Path/which/I/want/
ssh: connect to host ftp.mywebsite.com port 22: Connection refused
lost connection

Here I have deliberately changed my my username,website name and file path for security reason. In actual command I am using correct username, ftp server name and path.

Can anyone please help me find what is going wrong?

thanks in advance.

[justleen]

Most likely there is no SSH server running on the remote host, or on a different port number, or its blocked by a firewall.
- ping the machine (to test connectivety)
- see if there is a ssh deamon running

~$ ps -ef |grep sshd
root       457     1  0 07:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/sshd -D

- run the same command but add "-vvv" to get more verbose output.


edit: Just noticed you are connecting to "ftp.mywebsite.com". Most likely you can only use FTP to your site. Check with your hosting provider is SSH is available

[sujitrjadhav]

Most likely there is no SSH server running on the remote host, or on a different port number, or its blocked by a firewall.
- ping the machine (to test connectivety)
- see if there is a ssh deamon running

~$ ps -ef |grep sshd
root       457     1  0 07:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/sshd -D

- run the same command but add "-vvv" to get more verbose output.


edit: Just noticed you are connecting to "ftp.mywebsite.com". Most likely you can only use FTP to your site. Check with your hosting provider is SSH is available

ping

infocafe@devils-home:~/Desktop$ ping ftp.mywebsite.com
PING ftp.mywebsite.com (??.??.??.??) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ftp.mywebsite.com (??.??.??.??): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=271 ms
64 bytes from ftp.mywebsite.com (??.??.??.??): icmp_seq=2 ttl=46 time=270 ms
64 bytes from ftp.mywebsite.com (??.??.??.??): icmp_seq=3 ttl=46 time=271 ms



ps -ef |grep sshd
root 2685 1 0 21:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
infocafe 14170 13431 0 21:52 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --color=auto sshd

scp -vvv myfilename.pdf myusername@ftp.mywebsite.com:/path/which/i/want/
Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host ftp.mywebsite.com, user myusername, command scp -v -t /path/that/i/want/
OpenSSH_6.2p2 Ubuntu-6ubuntu0.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to ftp.mywebsite.com [??.???.???.??] port 22.
debug1: connect to address ??.???.???.?? port 22: Connection refused
ssh: connect to host ftp.mywebsite.com port 22: Connection refused
lost connection

[sandyd]

Do you have a firewall running?

[sujitrjadhav]

How do I check it? I think I have ufw installed. One more thing- When I connect to my website using filezilla it is using a different port no- not port no 22

[justleen]

the ps -ef |grep sshd, did you do that on your local machine, or on the remote? (should be remote)
Do you have shell access at all to that machine, or just FTP access?

I'm pretty confident the remote side is not accepting connections on port 22 / ssh..

[sujitrjadhav]

My web host have given me ftp user name and ftp address. By remote machine you mean server of webhost? I can not run that command on server. Is there any else way to check it? If, like you say, ssh is not enabled on remote machine and only ftp option is available then what is command that I can use to achieve my goal- automate uploading a file to a ftp address using linux commandline.

[GrouchyGaijin]

I'm just curious, do you have an ssh key set up?

I have an scp script that connect to my host set up as:

scp -P 18765 -r ~/Pictures/Phoca_upload/* username@host.com:public_html/destination/directory

My host uses port 18765 and I have a key in my ~/.ssh directory and a corresponding key on the server.

[sujitrjadhav]

To be honest I do not understand these protocols and have no knowledge about networking and these file transfer protocols. I really do not know whether I am using correct command or not. I am using filezilla every day to get my work done. I quick connect with filezilla and manually upload the file to desired address. I wish to automate the job by creating a bash script. So I Googled and found scp command. I do not know if that command is the correct command in the scenario or not.

[sujitrjadhav]

What I have is a ftp username, a ftp server address. What command I may use to automate the same task of file transfer as I have a fixed file name with fixed local path and fixed remote path?