PHP Storm Deployment

After many different methods of working with a virtual machine, we have found the best way for us and want to share it with you.

File access via NFS is quite slow. Especially Flow and Neos in development mode are almost unusable via NFS. This is because Flow scans all PHP files via NFS for changes with every request in order to recompile any proxy files.

PHPStorm has the option of automatically copying the file to a remote server via SFTP each time it is saved using "Deployment configuration".

Advantages

• The code is located locally for development
• Local Git tools can be executed
• The code is in the box for fast execution

Disadvantages

• Automatic deployment can be another source of errors
• FileModes are currently not transferred correctly
• Symlinks are transferred as files / directories.