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One of the questions that has come up a few times through the development of Komodo 4.0, is "Why don't we have project publish features?" Well, to be honest, it was one of the features that got left behind for the time being. But there is a good way to add publishing capabilities on your own, and I'll show how in this article.

The simplest way to do this is with rsync. "rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer." It can synchronize files in a directory between two machines. For security, rsync can be combined with the use of ssh.

Attached is a project template that allows you to create new projects that support RSync over SSH. There are two simple commands to upload and download. I'm sure more could be added.

You can import the project into the toolbox to look at it, but preferably drop it into your project templates directory.

OSX:
~/Library/Application Support/Komodo/4.0/project-templates/My Templates/rsync.kpz

Linux:
~/.komodo/4.0/project-templates/My Templates/rsync.kpz

Windows:
%APPDATA%/ActiveState/Komodo/4.0/project-templates/My Templates/rsync.kpz

Some software you may need

* rsync: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
* ssh: http://www.openssh.com

OSX:
* ssh key agents (only one of the following)
- http://www.sshkeychain.org/
- http://www.phil.uu.nl/~xges/ssh/
- http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13221

Windows:
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/