CPanel integration with JetBrains PhpStorm

Question

I created an FTP Account on CPanel. I also tried to configure FTP on JetBrains PhpStorm, but I am not able to establish connection.

I made FTP Accounts as below;

FTP Username: ****@*********.org
FTP server: ****.****.org
FTP & explicit FTPS port:  21

I need suggestion on how to connect to public_html/ folder from JetBrains PhpStorm and then synch files.

Answer 1

Follow those steps:

1. Go to: File -> New Project from Existing Files...
2. Select: Web server is on remote host, files are accessible via FTP/SFTP/FTPS
3. Give a name and a path for the local copy of the project
4. Select: Add new remote server
5. Fill all the fields
6. Select as root folder the public_html folder

Answer 2

There is no reference in the previous answer on how to connect to cpanel instance, I had this issue too.

In PHPStorm's deployment menu there is a field to add the Host, now PHPStorm's connections have a prefixed ftp:// (or sftp, depends what you choose).

Cpanel also has it's own stipulated connection method, it defaults to create your entry host as ftp.yoursite.com

PHPStorm interprets this as ftp://ftp.yoursite.com, thus you get an error.

This is what you should do to connect successfully:

• use SFTP
• write your host name as a top level domain (TLD) yoursite.com
• use port 22
• write root path with your user name: home/user-name
• fill in your user name and then password

That worked for me.