I'm specifying the port when I use scp, but I get an error saying port 22 connection refused. What am I doing wrong?

All I want to do is move a file from my laptop to my server. Both machines have openssh-server installed, and port 2222 is specified in both sshd_config files as well as both ssh_config files. I'm using the following to attempt to copy the file:

scp -P 2222 user1@thenameofmylaptop:file.name user2@[serverIPaddress]:/home/user2/filepath/file.name

Even though I have password authentication set to no and rsa keys installed in both directions, it still asks me for a password. After I give it the password, it gives me the following error:

ssh: connect to host [IP address of server] port 22: Conection refused

Is there a separate config file for scp? What am I missing?

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You don't need the user@host:/path/to/file.name syntax for the local file that you are trying to copy - in fact, doing so is likely causing scp to try to open a connection on port 2222 from your laptop to itself. Try just

scp -P 2222 path/to/file.name user2@[serverIPaddress]:/home/user2/filepath/file.name

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