WebStorm
 
2024.3
Get WebStorm

Create an in-place server configuration

Last modified: 08 October 2024

In an in-place server configuration, you are using a local web server, but unlike with the local server configuration, don't upload/download or synchronize files between the WebStorm project and the project folder in the server file structure. Instead, you open the project folder from the server document root directly in WebStorm, and thus do the development on the server directly.

To create an in-place server configuration in WebStorm, you only need to specify the web server URL mapped to the server document root and the URL path to your project.

Now that you have the server configuration added, you can access the server's files and folders in the Remote Host tool window. Go to Tools | Deployment | Browse Remote Host in the main menu, and in the tool window that opens, select the configured server from the drop-down list.

Open the Remote Host tool window and select the server