What is the point of in-place server configuration on phpstorm?

What is the point of in-place server configuration, when as defined in the docs in in-place server configuration: "the web server is running on your computer, your project is under its document root (for example, in the /htdocs folder), and you do your development directly on the server".
So, what is the point of making a server connection when I'm directly editing/using the files from my server, and they are both local and remote at the same time?
Also, I've set up everything according to the docs for in-place server, and I can't find any server when I open remote hosts window.

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It is historically used to preview PHP web pages. When clicking on a web browser icon to preview a page, a default deployment configuration is used to serve the page:

So, when you're working with a project located directly in a web server root, an "in-place" config can be used for that.

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