Using drush and aliases.drushrc.php with non-standard SSH-Port

Submitted by Julian Pustkuchen on 8. May 2015 - 14:20

Drupal Drush aliases.drushrc.php for setting SSH remote port

Today I'd like to give you a little hint how to a execute a remote SSH drush command successfully for a connection defined in aliases.drushrc.php when the SSH port differs from default "22". This is for example the case on Hetzner Hosting.

In my case I set the "remote-port" option, but with no success:

$aliases['live'] = array(
'remote-host' => '...',
'remote-user' => 'my-user',
'remote-port' => 222,
);

I always received the following error when using drush core-rsync:
exec request failed on channel 0

Finally I found the trick here to set the "ssh-options"-parameter to set the port: https://www.drupal.org/node/820514

$aliases['live'] = array(
'remote-host' => '...',
'remote-user' => 'my-user',
'ssh-options' => '-p 222',
);

That worked great :)

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Comments

Perfect. Thanks for blogging

Submitted by Strykaizer (not verified) on 12. February 2016 - 12:24.

Perfect. Thanks for blogging about this! Custom client server with non-default port and I hate not using drush

voila!!just what i needed

Submitted by dejavu (not verified) on 26. February 2016 - 9:01.

voila!!just what i needed short and informative!!thanks

Thank you, just what I

Submitted by Matt (not verified) on 1. December 2016 - 17:22.

Thank you, just what I needed!

Julian Pustkuchen, M. Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik ist passionierter Software- & Webentwickler mit den Schwerpunkten Softwaredesign, Objektorientierung sowie Usability- & Ablaufoptimierung bei webks. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ist die Entwicklung im CMS Drupal.