That’s it, Sublime SFTP is free to use, but with continue usage it will prompt for license purchase from time to time. One important key settings you need to pay attention to is “ upload_on_save“, default set to false, update to true will allow SFTP to automatically upload the file you’ve just saved to remote server.īelow is an example how it looks like when you set upload_on_save to true. You need to make sure enter the correct host, user and password (if there are any*) credential. This file is only going to be used by SFTP, in here it will store all the remote FTP server credentials. You will see there is a new sftp-config.json file created at the root directory. Once the plugin is installed, you find all the available options by going to Control + Shift + P > SFTPĪssuming you have a working directory that were mirroring what the remote server is, you can right-click on the directory root and go to SFTP/FTP > Map to Remote … Let’s get started to Enable Remove FTP Mapping from Sublime Textįirst you need to install this plugin called SFTP, by going to Control + Shift + P > Package Install > SFTP A rule of thumb is, if you find yourself repetitively doing a certain action, chances are, there are existing ways to optimize this workflow by automating the task. This would save you countless time and repetitive clicks to upload files to remove server manually. That being said, if necessary, this is how you can map a local directory to remove server via FTP/SFTP directly within Sublime Text. We all know working off a live website is not a good idea.

Here is an extremely useful trick that allows you to directly upload a file to remote FTP server upon saving in Sublime Text.

Sublime text sftp multiple hosts