Hi is there a way for PhpStorm to work directly on a remote server? No local files. Because as of the moment PhpStorm has local files wherein it just automatically uploads all files during save on remote.
My problem is if someone changes something remotely I need to manually download it first before seeing the changes.
It's not possible to fully operate on a remote server. Phpstorm need a local project, which contain the .idea folder. You can edit remote files without downloading them to the project folder. But in this case the entire list of features is not available.
For you can be useful the following settings:
tools->Deployment->Options:
warn when uploading over newer file
Notify about remote changes
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I created a new project from remote sources and entered my servers data. PhpStorm instantly began to download the whole Magento project, even though I only need specific files for development, e.g. I don't need all the images or cache folders for my purpose. Now it takes 4-5 hours to download the whole project.
In NetBeans you can choose which folders you want to download to your machine, is this also possible in PhpStorm?
Yes it's possible.
You should have marked such unwanted folders as "Excluded from Download" --
See official help page for appropriate wizard step.
Other ways of creating a project:
Just create empty local project and then configure the rest manually (deployment etc); once done use "Browse Remote Host" and download folders/files you need.
Another way -- download all needed files locally first using you preferred program (e.g. FileZilla) and then just point to the project root folder in "Open" dialog -- IDE will create new project from those files.
An ASP.NET application (running on Windows server/IIS 7) has to transfer big size files uploaded by current user to an external SFTP server. Due to the file size the idea is to do this asynchronously.
The idea is that the ASP.NET application stores the uploaded file on a local directory of the Windows server. The current user can continue his work. A Windows service or a Quartz job (other tools(*)/ideas?) is now responsible to transfer the file to the external SFTP server.
(*) Are there existing tools that listen on changes of a Windows directory and then move the files on a SFTP server (incl. handling communication errors/retries)?
If there is no existing solution, do you have had similar requirements? What do we have to consider? Because the connection to the SFTP server is not very stable we need an optimized error handling with auto retry functionality.
To watch for changes in a local directory in .NET, use
the FileSystemWatcher class.
If you are looking for an out of the box solution, use the keepuptodate command in WinSCP scripting.
A simple example of WinSCP script (e.g. watch.txt):
open sftp://username:password#host/
keepuptodate c:\local_folder_to_watch /remote_folder
exit
Run the script like:
winscp.com /script=watch.txt
Though this works only, if the uploaded files are preserved in the remote folder.
(I'm the author of WinSCP)
It's not clear to my why I should use the option in PhpStorm to create a new project from existing files instead of just opening a folder and declaring the project directory.
I have a web server installed and I can access it's root by a shared network drive. Now I can just open the a folder in PhpStorm and declare it's root. It will generate a PhpStorm project at the given directory.
But there is also an option to open a new project from existing files (located under shared network drive). My best guess is that this option is the way to go. Is this true and if so, why? Or if it doesn't matter, why doesn't it?
There will be several people using the same shared drive to work in different projects in the webroot.
You can, of course, create a project on mounted network drive via File/Open, but note that this is not officially supported. All IDE functionality is based on the index of the project files which PHPStorm builds when the project is loaded and updates on the fly as you edit your code. To provide efficient coding assistance, PHPStorm needs to re-index code fast, which requires fast access to project files and caches storage. The latter can be ensured only for local files, that is, files that are stored on you hard disk and are accessible through the file system. Sure, mounts are typically in the fast network, but one day some hiccup happen and a user sends a stacktrace and all we see in it is blocking I/O call.
So, the suggested approach is downloading files to your local drive and use deployment configuiration to synchronize local files with remote. See https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/Sync+changes+and+automatic+upload+to+a+deployment+server+in+PhpStorm
I am using webstorm to load a project via sftp.
The remotely mapped directory had some files, which have been deleted via ssh from terminal.
These files still show up in the project, even If I try synchronizing the project dir with server, or download from server options.
The problem persists even if I create new projects, after delete existing ones.
ALso when I am creating a new project and trying to set project root at the dir in the server, when I go along the path to selecting that dir, all other dirs are not shown.
my remote path on server is ~/Desktop/jekyll_files
I have other directories on Desktop in the server, but these dont show up when I navigate to the jekyll_files dir
It was a problem unrelated to webstorm
I am new to PhpStorm. I want to edit files on remote host without mapping (like in PhpDesigner). I configured server, opened in on Remote Host window and I watch all files, but when I click on file it is not open in editor. How to do this?
In new EAP version of PHPStorm You can edit remote file. http://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2015/04/remote-edit-in-phpstorm-9-eap/
You can only edit local files. This is a lacking in IntelliJ platform IDEs. Sorry for this. You can take a look at this ticket, or make one for yourself as a feature request.