Support alternative connections to a server
Use Unity Version Control (UVCS) to connect to the same server with different IP addresses and protocols. For example, if you connect to localserver.office-network.com:8084 at your office, but want to go home and connect through the public SSL-protected IP ssl://plastic.external-network.com:8090, you can tell the client that server:8084 and ssl://externalserver:8085 are aliases of each other.
Configure the server aliases file
Use the serveralias.conf file to enable this feature on your UVCS client so that the client knows which connection to use and can switch from one server URL to the other transparently.
Create the serveralias.conf file under one of the following directories:
* On Linux or macOS: $HOME/.plastic4
* On Windows: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\plastic4
* In the plastic-global-config repository to give all clients the same settings by default.
* Under the client folder in the UVCS installation directory.
The serveralias.conf file contains a pair of connections that are aliases of each other:
alias1 alias2Example server alias file
To resolve the example in the first paragraph, you can use the following serveralias.conf file:
localserver.office-network.com:8084 ssl://plastic.external-network.com:8090Note: The file can jump to a different URL and a different protocol (in this case from regular TCP to SSL).