I work directly on a remote (S)FTP Server some times. I use textmate as editor and Transmit 4 as FTP-Client.
My Problem is, I will work live on the server and if I save files to the server I will a local copy in a special folder to save the changes to SVN.
As long as I worked with Windows, I used Notepad++ with the FTP Plugin and could say "Save local and remote".
Has any body a idear how I can do it with mac, textate and transmit?
Assuming your are doing web development, revert the process:
make a local copy of what is on your remote server
edit locally with your preferred editor
test locally
publish your changes to the remote server either with FTP (meh) or SVN (better)
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I'm trying to switch to using the SFTP package for Sublime Text 2 as my default FTP client, as it looks rather promising with regards to workflow improvement -- much faster than using a 3rd party FTP client.
I was trying to browse a remote server, and it seems like I only have two options: either sync the entire remote location to a local folder, or browse it via the SFTP/FTP > Browse Server menu item, which brings up one of those file browsing bars. My situation concerns a large remote location (inconvenient to download everything) on which I would like to edit files that are quite spread-out (inconvenient to navigate with that file browsing bar).
What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to browse the server in the side-bar, like the behaviour that occurs when browsing a local folder, but without actually having to download every single file on the remote location. Just the directory listing should be sufficient information to achieve this. Then, upon trying to open a file from the sidebar that hasn't been downloaded yet, it could go ahead and download that specific file.
Is this some sort of option I have not yet discovered? Where can I configure this behaviour? What is your FTP workflow when it comes to editing multiple files on a large remote location?
Mount the remote directory using SSHFS and then edit with ST2, there.
SSHFS:
This is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there's nothing to do. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with ssh.
Example:
sshfs user#host.com:/server/path /local/path
then
subl /local/path
I searched for an answer but my files don't seem to save locally and remotely. I imported a project from my pc (local) and I set up an ftp connection (remotely) to my site. I was able to download and upload files to the server but they did not save locally? I did select sync in both directories.
Basically what I'd like to do is develop WordPress sites both locally (using XAMP) and remotely - uploading saved files. Is this possible?
There is a functionality within editors to save files locally as well as on remote location through ftp. What about your editor?
Does the Notepad++ have Local and FTP synchronizer by any plugin?? because I develop websites using PHP and notepad++ has all the features I like and its really lightweight but I had to switch to Netbeans because I use a web hosting but I always like to save the code in my computer too. and netbeans can do that, even anything you insert locally in the folder it automatically adds the folder and the files in the FTP server which is great. but if the notepad++ has the feature to at least update the files that we are saving in notepad++ in both local and ftp server I would be so glad, I search that for a long time, but I can't use netbeans anymore I lose way too much time, netbeans is really heavy!
Thanks!
NppFTP: a plugin that allows FTP,
FTPS, FTPES and SFTP communications.
Very useful for web development.
Author: harrybharry
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nppftp/
Install it from Plugin Manager
These are NppFTP plugin panel and toolbar button
Open profile settings dialog
Then configure profiles
Just wanted to post this here for anybody looking for the same solution I was looking for... (and I think helps answer this question more thoroughly).
I keep an exact replica of my public_html directory on my local machine. I wanted to be able to double click a file on the remote server and live edit so that I had a mirrored copy on my local machine. Note: if you are looking for functionality similar to Dreamweaver's site manager... there is a feature request for that. This solution only allows your local files to get updated when you edit a remote file.
So here goes the basic connection settings (pretty standard):
h: some.ftphost.com
u: some_ftp_user
p: a_very_secure_password
d: /public_html
Then, here is where the magic comes in. Under the "cache" tab for the ftp profile, add the following:
Local path: E:\Path\to\your\local\server\public_html
External path: /public_html
The external path should be the same as the "initial directory" in your connection settings. Hope this makes sense. Please ask questions if you have any.
Then what you need is rather FTP_synchronize
double-clicking file will open it for
editing and saving file (in usual way)
will update it on server .
I actually prefer the way that Notepad++ works with FTP compared to Netbeans. Notepad++ always treats the remote file as the master copy. So when you open it, it first downloads it and stores it in the local cache. Netbeans however always opens the local copy first - you have to explicitly synchronise with the external server to pull down the files from the server. If you're working with other developers - its much better to use the server copy so that you pull down any changes by other developers.
If you want the synchronisation try these steps:
In Notepad++ | NppFTP | Global Settings | Set the Global cache to be C:\inetpub\wwwroot\%USERNAME%#%HOSTNAME% which works for IIS or change the directory to your webserver root directory
You will have to make sure Notepad++ has permissions to create directories in your server root
Download one file from the server using NppFTP so that you can see what the directory struction looks like you can probably put just %HOSTNAME% e.g. C:\inetpub\wwwroot\domain.com
Then use Filezilla to download all the files into that directory - you can also use Filezilla to check for synchronisation changes.
Then use NppFTP which will download the files into that structure.
You should then be able to access the files through localhost/domain.com
If you're the only one working on the project that should then be enough, but if there are others, or if you make changes elsewhere you can use Filezilla to check the file timestamps to synchronise.
The default install for Notepad++ has a Plugin called NppFTP on the Plugins menu. I don't know how feature-full it is, however.
Get NppFTP
Connect to ftp.xxxx.com
Double click file to open
Edit changes
Save with automatic upload
Is there a Windows option, FileZilla option, other FTP program or some other program I can use that will copy any file I modify in a directory to a directory in an FTP Server?
Situation: I'm doing my development in my machine with my own server, but since it can't be broadcast, I have it serving from another domain. I'm in the beginning stages so code is changed every minute, but it is tiresome to copy the modified files to the FTP every time and also remember the ones that need to be copied.
So, I want a program that will check my directory and upload any modified files to the FTP.
Netbeans has its own "Project from a Remote Server". And it will auto sync any changed file!
Tested and worked.
Thanks to Mikecito for the suggestion.
At work, we have a windows server 2003 with IIS and Subversion installed. We use it to publish and test locally
our ASP.NET websites. Every programmer has Tortoise installed on his PC and can update/commit content to the server. Hosting the repositories is working fine.
But the files kept in those repositories needs then to be copied to our local IIS (virtual directories).
What is an easy way to publish those subversion repositories to our local IIS?
Edit:
Thanks to puetzk I added a simple bat file that gets executed every time a commit occurs (check the subversion documentation about hooks). My bat file only contains:
echo off
setlocal
:: Localize the working copy where IIS points)
pushd E:\wwwroot\yourapp\trunk
:: Update your working copy
svn update
endlocal
exit
Just keep the web server's file area as a working copy, and perform an svn up in it whenever you want to "publish". Configure it to hide the contents of the .svn folders if they seem untidy to you (I don't specifically know how to do this, but I assume it can be done). They will already have the filesystem hidden bit, which may take care of this.
If you want it really automatic (updates as soon as someone commits), use a post-commit hook script on the SVN server to kick off the first process.
Others in the comments have suggested using export instead of checkout. That can work too, and avoids the .svn clutter, but has two drawbacks. One, it has to redownload the entire contents every time, not just the modified files (since it didn't keep the .svn dir to remember what it has). If you have a lot of files, this will be much slower. Two, update replaces the file atomically (writes the new version in .svn/tmp, then moves it into place). Export writes the file gradually into it's destination as it downloads. That means export could deliver an incomplete file to someone who browsed it at just the wrong time.
SVN doesn't support IIS; you can however run the standalone svnserve server as a windows service.
There's the SVN FAQ entry about it, and this blog post on Vertigo Software blog may be helpful too.
UPDATE:
After your clarification, I see that what you are looking for is a way to automatically update the code on the server after it's checked in. Look into CruiseControl.NET, after looking at the subversion integration tutorial it looks like it should do what you want.
UPDATE 2: This tutorial describes integrating Subversion, CruiseControl.NET and Nant.
maybe SVNIsapi can solve the problem (http://www.svnisapi.com). Cause it only utilizes an IIS installation, therefore you don't need an APACHE server or an SVNSERVER service. Secondly it should be possible to stack the ASP.NET ISAPI plugin onto the processing of SVNISAPI, so that a ASP.NET (.aspx) page will interpreted after read from the repository.
Cheers
Paolo
Use can use the free Visual-SVN Server to quickly install Subversion with Apache front end. It also have a nice MMC snap-in for managing the server and repositories.
You will than be able to access subversion with HTTP or HTTPS, but the port number must be different from the one your local IIS uses (default port for Visual-SVN server is 8080).
If you really need to access the repositories using your local IIS port 80, you can try SVN-IIS which acts as a bridge between your IIS and Apache. I haven't tried this one myself though.