Zend Studio (Eclipse) Remote Editing through a secure proxy
Remote Editing in Zend Studio for Eclipse has to be one of the biggest reasons why I use it in my current job. I work from home and our team’s development environment is securely setup on a Linux server with a firewall open only to specific IP addresses. This is a no biggie if my IP address never changes or if I work only in one place. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for my DSL setup — I get a different IP address everyday. And since I can’t bug the server admin every time I need to have my IP address added to the firewall, I connect through our proxy server first and then connect to the main development server. The setup’s kinda like this:
The problem now is Zend Studio doesn’t seem to support this kind of setup. At least, that’s what I concluded after so many hours of googling. Then I found this super awesome article. We can use Putty! Or just plain ol’ Terminal on a Mac (Linux should be the same I think). (More …)