Sitecore explorer, connect to project on an other machine

Question

I'm currently developing a new sitecore website. There's my working project on my local machine and a project on a staging server. The staging server does not have Visual Studio.

I want to connect via Sitecore Explorer to the project on the server. But it seems like i can only give local folders when i try to create a new connection.

( The reason i want this is because there is some functionality that is available in sitecore explorer but not in the /myWebsite/sitecore interface.

Does anyone know how to achieve this ?

Answer 1

It is not recommended that you use Sitecore Rocks in an environment other than development as it can open up some potential security issues.

However, there is a standalone version here that can be installed without VS.

http://vsplugins.sitecore.net/install/default.html

I would do what you need to do in Rocks then uninstall when done.

Answer 2

If you already have the sitecore rocks configured in the staging environment (by copying it from dev, for example), you could connect, leaving the "Location" field empty. Only operations requiring access to the folder would fail, but most of the functionality should work.