Mountee

Installation Instructions

1. Download Mountee.zip and unzip it.
2. Install the Module on your ExpressionEngine site:
   1. EE1: Upload /system/modules/mountee/ to /system/modules/mountee/. If you running less than 1.6.7, you’ll need to also upload /system/language/english/lang.mountee.php.
   2. EE2: Upload /system/expressionengine/third_party/mountee/ to /system/expressionengine/third_party/.
3. In your site’s Control Panel, install the Mountee module:
   1. EE1: In the Modules tab
   2. EE2: In Add-ons → Modules
4. If you have been using ExpressionEngine’s file sync, you should synchronize templates and switch this features off. (View Knowledge Base article for details)
5. Install the Mac OS X App by moving the app to your Applications folder

NOTE 1: ExpressionEngine’s Template Versioning works with Mountee. If you want to keep revisions of templates, you can enable this feature here: Templates → Global Template Preferences → Save Template Revisions.
NOTE 2: Mountee keeps a local cache of your templates in memory. This is part of what makes Mountee so much faster than editing over FTP, but it means that if you change your templates through the ExpressionEngine control panel while Mountee is connected, you will need to disconnect and reconnect to get the latest changes. If you only edit through Mountee this won’t be a problem.

Using Mountee

Connecting to your site

1. Launch the Mountee app
2. Enter your site’s URL.
3. Ensure the system folder URL is correct (You will probably have renamed the folder)
4. Enter a Super Admin username and password for your site.
5. Save your Mountee site.
6. Click Connect to mount your site’s EE templates as a drive

Using the Mountee File Preferences

To launch the Mountee File Preferences from Finder, right click a file and select Mountee File Preferences or use the keyboard shortcut (⌥⇧⌘I).

The same keyboard shortcut can be used from within your editor, if you’ve installed the relevant plugin.

File Extensions

Mountee will automatically add virtual extensions to your template names in Finder. These extensions only appear in Finder; they don’t carry over to your real template names in ExpressionEngine.

The extension added by Mountee is determined by the template type and is mapped as follows:

• webpage → .php
• feed → .rss
• xml → .xml
• static → .html
• javascript → .js
• css → .css

When you create new templates with Mountee you should add one of these six extensions so that ExpressionEngine handles your templates appropriately.

If, for any reason, you really do want your template names to have extensions, you can add the extension twice. EG: A Mountee file named “style.css” would be named “style” in ExpressionEngine, however “style.css.css” would be stored as “style.css”.