Access files on servers

Once you have set up synchronization between your local application sources and the application sources on a server, you can upload and download files as well as compare files and folders on the server with their local versions, edit local versions and even edit individual non-project files on the server.

You can also create, move, rename, and delete files and folders on the server.

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For the sake of simplicity, any file or folder in your WebStorm project is called local and any file or folder on the server is called remote, even if the server is actually installed on your machine. For more information, refer to Configure synchronization with a server.

Although WebStorm supports direct editing of individual non-project files on servers, to get full coding assistance either download the sources from the server, open the folder where they are stored, and arrange them in a WebStorm project or upload the local sources to the server. In either case, to keep your local and remote sources synchronized, configure automatic upload using the Upload changed files automatically to the default server list in the Options dialog.