Using SFTP

Created April 20, 2012 15:16

I'm not very familiar with using SFTP and I don't see much in the help file for it. Is there a better tutorial for using SFTP with PHPStorm? Specifically the problem that I am having is that I am trying to use it with Zend Cloud and the file I downloaded is in .ppk format. PHPStom says that that keypair is corrupt or has unknown format.

3 comments

Elena Shaverdova

Created April 23, 2012 12:29

Hello!

Putty keys *.ppk are not supported. Here is an issue for their support, feel free to vote for. Here is a thread on stackoverflow about converting ppk to OpenSSH format. Here is a thread with a similar problem on this forum.

Keith Davis

Created April 23, 2012 14:56

Thanks.

I understand and can do through 4, but are 5-7 for Linux? I don't understand those instructions.

Open PuttyGen
Click Load
Load your private key
Go to
```
Conversions->Export OpenSSH
```
and export your private key
Copy your private key to
```
~/.ssh/id_dsa
```
(or
```
id_rsa
```
).
Create the RFC 4716 version of the public key using
```
ssh-keygen
```
ssh-keygen -e -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa > ~/.ssh/id_dsa_com.pub
Convert the RFC 4716 version of the public key to the OpenSSH format:
ssh-keygen -i -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa_com.pub > ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub

Keith Davis

Created April 23, 2012 15:06

Nevermind, it's working with just those 4 steps.

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