I have a Vagrant setup that works normally.
Synced folder and other things work as expected.
However I couldn't find a way to access files in the Box (guest) from my computer
For example, if I want to edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/test.local.conf, I don't know how to open this file with SublimeText or VsCode
I tried the following settings, but no luck
config.vm.synced_folder "../data", "/vagrant_data" (created just lib and tmp folders)
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/" (got error: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘’:)
(As far as I know synced_folder does not work this way, but just wanted to try)
Is it possible to achieve this?
Edit
Now I am able to connect via Transmit app using the credentials below but it would be better if there is a native way
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I cannot figure out how to use the ftp-kr extension for VS Code properly. I have read and re-read the GitHub Wiki and the README documentation and cannot find any other help for my issue. I posted this question to the project Issues on GitHub but have yet to receive a response.
ftp-kr is just a simple extension for editing files via FTP that are located on a remote server. Many other users seem to be using the extension with no issue.
I installed the extension, and then I successfully edited the connection settings (in ftp-kr.json) and successfully made a connection to the remote server I am trying to edit files on.
I opened the FTP-KR: EXPLORER pane to look at all of the files on the server, but if I double-click any of the files to open them and then try to edit them, I am unable to type and just get a warning in VS Code that says "Cannot edit in read-only editor".
I have tried right-clicking on files and clicking the "Download This" button, thinking that maybe I need to download a local copy of the files to edit before uploading the changes. However, whenever I click the "Download This" option on any file in the ftp-kr Explorer, it just gives me an error message that says "[file_name] is not in remotePath".
I tried running the >ftp-kr: Download All command, but it just spits out a notice that says "Nothing to DO".
How do I edit files located on the remote server and save those changes to the server?
P.S. I have tried the solutions found in this question but unfortunately none of them seem to work. Particularly, "code-runner: Run in terminal" is not in my settings and "Edit in Local" is not a context menu item that appears in my editor.
After a number of months, I finally have a solution to this thanks to the developer eventually responding on GitHub. There are a few things going on here.
Any file that a user wishes to modify must be downloaded as a local copy on the user's machine first and then that copy can be uploaded to the webserver via FTP.
ftp-kr cannot auto-download individual files. (Either when they are double-clicked on or through any other method.) It can only download entire directories, and those directories can be changed by using the localPath and ignore options in the configuration file, then stopping and restarting the ftp connection.
The "Download This" context menu option that appears is a piece of non-implemented code. It will not do anything.
>ftp-kr: Download All is the preferred way (by the developer's intent) to download the remote files onto the user's computer. The fact that it was returning an error before was a bug which has now been fixed.
Confusingly, the user can view the filenames and context of every file on the remote file system using a convenient tree view, you just cannot simply download any of those files individually.
In all, this plugin does not provide the functionality that I hoped it would have. (Namely, being able to easily download, modify, and upload individual files.) So I know how to properly use it, I will just be switching to a different plugin for my purposes.
I've setup several sites previously to use Netbeans Remote Synchronization so I can edit files on the server from my machine and it has worked perfectly.
The problem I'm having right now is that when my FTP configuration in Netbeans uses the root folder it lists everything correctly but when I use a sub directory for example website.com/subdir as the upload directory or as the FTP initial directory the sync results come up blank - doesn't list anything at all on the remote side except directories in that sub directory.
My PC is a windows 7 64 bit machine, and the server is a standard shared hosting account running CPanel.
Also, I have been able to run the subdir synchronization on a different pc, could it be the firewall on this one? If so, why does it list the root folder properly?
Has anyone else had this issue? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Thanks.
found the problem. The FTP path on this PC required the /public_html before the subfolder paths. i.e. essentially ftp://mydomain.com/public_html/path/to/subfolder
This wasn't the case on my laptop as I used the subfolder path right after the domain i.e. ftp://mydomain.com/path/to/subfolder and it worked fine, different versions of netbeans perhaps.
I use Eclipse RSE to access files on a web server. To establish a sftp connection with Eclipse RSE I use my HippieBandJam user-ID. To edit files I need root access which I only can gain with the sudo command. In Eclipse RSE I have tried to start a new ssh terminal, use sudo su and then refreshed the sftp tree but this does not seem to work. Does anyone have any idea how to "upgrade" the sftp connection so I can edit the files?
If you want something really exotic, you could:
Compile a tiny program in C that does the only thing: execs the shell
Set a suid bit for the executable
Create a new user and set our freshly compiled binary as this user's login shell
Set up proper permissions for the binary, allowing only the new user to execute this file
Use new user's credentials to log onto the server
He-he :-)
Here is one idea:
create a mount point in your local system in /media/
use sshfs cmd to mount the remote server file system directory to .
In eclipse use the project, use add directory to your project
Steps: right click on your project -> New -> Folder -> Advanced (Select link to alternate location) linked folder.
There you have your remote systems files synced up...
Hope this helps!
My workaround for this was to set up the connection to use the root user from the start. First, you need to enable it on your ssh client:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=86876
Then you may have to configure the authorized_keys file:
/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
to accept the key.
Hope that helps! It's not quite as secure, so be wary of this method.
Other Workaround:
NOT ON LIVE SERVER!!!!
Assign the group of the files write rights during the period you are editing them and add your account to the group.
On my mac I mounted a shared drive using WebDAV by going to "Finder > Go > Connect to server".
Now, when I try to view the files using TextWranger or TextEdit I can see the PHP code that I want to edit.
However, if I try to use an IDE like NetBeans/Eclipse/TextMate and create a new project with my shared drive as the "Existing sources" folder I cannot see the PHP code.
Instead I see the HTML output of the files as if I were seeing them through a web browser. Also, if I try to view a file that isn't normally accessibility (a command line script) I see the output as if it were called from the command line.
But a weird thing is if I use TextMate to edit a single file from the shared drive I can see the php code I am trying to edit. It just doesn't work as a project.
Any suggestions or solutions on how I can use an IDE to edit files over WebDAV? And why do my IDEs display the content rendered, instead of the actual file on the file system.
I'm not a specialist at all but I seem to remember that WebDAV clients do send GET requests.
If I'm correct your server may not be able to discriminate between HTTP GET and WebDAV GET thus rendering your .php files. Why this would work that way when working with a project and another way while working with individual files is not clear, though.
Do you get rendered files when you add files to your project manually as well?
I have a PHP project in NetBeans with remote files (over sftp). When I create, modify anything these changes happening both locally and on my web server. However when I'm trying to delete a file or a folder it gets erased only locally. What could be the problem?
Permissions seems to be ok, all files belong to the user I'm using to access the server.
I'm using Netbeans 6.9.1, default configuration, all updates installed.
Netbeans does not have a synchronization function. It is limited to downloading and uploading files. What you can do is to use some external tool, for example WinSCP is capable of synchronizing local and remote directories.
I read what you wrote... but I think it could be a permissions problem.
I also use NetBeans and when I delete a file from the project window it first erase it locally and then syncs with my server.
I login through sftp (using vsftp) as root, which is a bad thing, but you could try this too to be sure if it's a permission issue.
You mistakenly turned off the settings. Please follow these steps:
Right click on the project name
Select properties
From the list of the left select 'Run configuration'
On the left almost down, look for the setting 'Upload files:'
Make sure you set that to 'On Save'
All the best man