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So I've downloaded Eclipse because the consensus is that dreamweaver is lame. In dreamweaver I was used to just making a change and hitting ⌘+shift+u to upload my file to my site and see the change i made.

In eclipse, I can I connect to my website so that I can mimic this behavior? Is there a better way to do this? Should I be debugging locally using mamp or something, then transfer the files with fetch (again, or something) when I am done?

Thanks!

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  • Do you use FTP to upload stuff to your server? Do you use OS X? – powtac Apr 25 '12 at 16:33
  • I mean, I guess I would if eclipse doesn't have any functionality to upload to a server. Yes, I use Lion. – 1252748 Apr 25 '12 at 16:39
  • So what are you using? FTP? SCP? SSH? – powtac Apr 25 '12 at 16:41
  • @powtac He was using dreamweaver, which has integrated ftp functionality. It uploads for him. He wants to know if the same can be done in eclipse. – dqhendricks Apr 25 '12 at 16:42
  • I also use ctrl + shift + u to upload in eclipse works like a charm – Jonathan Römer Apr 25 '12 at 16:44
  • See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95800/how-do-i-add-ftp-support-to-eclipse – powtac Apr 25 '12 at 16:51
  • Yes, it's a much better idea to develop and debug locally and then upload to your server once everything is working... unless you like taking your website down every time you forget a semicolon or something. It's even more important if you're working on a page that affects your site's security. But if you don't want to do that, just follow the instructions at powtac's link, above. – octern Apr 25 '12 at 17:15
  • @powtac thanks for that link. there's a warning there. does aptana still ad loads of advertisements. is it better to use just aptana alone in your opinion? – 1252748 Apr 25 '12 at 17:49
  • You dont need to install aptana, there are several other FTP plugins available – powtac Apr 25 '12 at 17:51