Edit a file on remote server in sublime text

Using Secure Shell (SSH) Tunneling, we can establish an SSH session that routes arbitrary traffic through it to a specified port for any use we want. Thanks to a nifty set of scripts called rsub, modified originally from TextMate’s rmate, we can run a little utility server on our local machine that interacts with your remote server for you and lets you open up remote files and save them back, all through an encrypted channel.

Download rsub for sublime text

Go to your sublime text pluging directory

• OS X ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages

• Linux ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages

• Windows %APPDATA%/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages/

and clone this git repe there.

git clone git://github.com/henrikpersson/rsub.git rsub

Edit ssh config on local machine

Add this line to ~/.ssh/config file ( create if not exist )

RemoteForward 52698 127.0.0.1:52698

Set config file permission to 600

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config

Remote server configuration

Install rsub on remote server

wget -O /usr/local/bin/rsub https://raw.github.com/aurora/rmate/master/rmate

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/rsub

SSH to remote server

Run this to create connection to remote server

sudo ssh -R 52698:localhost:52698 <user>@<host>

Open a file to edit

To edit any file on remote server do rsub <file name>

it will open in subline on local machine