Is there a way to set the publishing directory to a local/network directory?

The current Publishing setup seems to require either an ftp or webdav account. We do our development from behind a firewall on the same network as our web servers and publish to a network directory. We don't have ftp or webdav enabled on these servers.

What protocols are used then ?
If you access those servers though mapped disks, you don't need publishing at all. Just post project directory to that shared disk and it will work fine.

Yes, these are mapped disks.

When you say 'post project directory to shared disk' what do you mean?

It's mostly for debugging -- for a number of reasons, we felt that we needed to debug on the 'remote' servers rather than in the PhpEd SRV environment. So we had originally setup the PhpEd project folder to point to the folders right on the server (these are dev servers anyway). Is that what you mean?

Anyway, we were never really comfortable with that and have been experimenting with different scenarios for offline editing and it would be really nice if we could make use of the 'upload' command to copy a freshly edited file to the server directly from within PhpEd.

Sorry, "point". See Project->properties->Root Directory


That's fine.


Not exactly. "phped\Project" subdirectory is just a default location.
See project root directory setting. It's not necessary to keep them under phped\Project subdirectory.


If you work in a team you'd consider using CVS to keep sources in a repository and run cvs update or cvs commit whenever you need to get fresh local copy or update repository with your changes.