Connect to a web serverPhpStorm distinguishes among the following three types of "local development — deployment server" configurations: In-place server configuration. In an in-place server configuration, you are using a local web server, but unlike with the local server configuration, don't upload/download or synchronize files between the PhpStorm project and the project folder in the server file
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