phpstorm and git remote repository

Question

I have a git remote repository, keys generated with putty (everything works fine in eclipse with it) and I'm trying to create a new project in phpstorm by git checkout but it says he can't read from git repository. I read that phpstorm is searching for a key named id_rsa (standart value) in the user/.ssh Folder (I only have it in the ssh not .ssh folder, can't create a .ssh folder it says: Give a filename...)

I have a different key-name: xyz.ppk in the /ssh folder and I read that I have to make a ssh config file like this?

Host testadress.com IdentifyFile ~/ssh/xyz.ppk

(or better .ssh here?) I put the file in the user/ssh/ folder simply named config

I'm using a different then the standart ssh port too. So I'm using the repository adress like:

ssh://user@testadress.com:1234/home/foldera/git/projectfolder/

But it says: repository test has failed when I test it and he can't read from it to clone the repository. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

It must be .ssh/id_rsa.pub for PHPStorm.

On linux you can create the an folder via

mkdir .ssh

On windows you can go two ways:

1. Via commandline (Start -> open cmd , changing in directory ( via cd command and then typing mkdir .ssh ))

2. Via a trick in the explorer. Open your user folder and then create a new folder with the following name .ssh. . The explorer things you want to create a file and removes the last dot so it becomes a folder named .ssh .

In this folder you can put your public key and rename it to `id_rsa.pub

Works fine for me since several PHPStorm versions.

For using another port on your git-repositoy have a look at this SO-question: Using a remote repository with non-standard port