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pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

NetBeans is installed under WinXP SP2 on one machine on my LAN. As it happens, this machine runs IIS, not Apache. Apache runs on another machine (named dellpb) on my LAN. I would like to test NetBeans on an existing PHP project, which lives (and is maintained in an existing PHP IDE) on dellpb and runs from there.

I run NetBeans, create a PHP project, choosing the "PHP Application with Existing Sources" (sic) option. NetBeans asks me for the Sources folder. I enter it. It also wants the URL of the project. That is not http:/localhost/etc, but rather http://dellpb/projectfoldername. NetBeans does not accept this. The 'Next' button remains greyed out.

It appears NetBeans has defeated me before I start. Can it be true that any browser running on any machine on my LAN can run any webapp running under Apache on dellpb, but NetBeans refuses? Must NetBeans be installed on each machine where I have webapps running under Apache!? What have I missed?

Tomas Mysik · Posted via mailing list.

Hi,

Dne pondělí 22 června 2009 07:21:46 pzbrawl napsal(a):

pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

The entered path already does end with '/'.

It does not work.

Eugene Morgan · Posted via mailing list.

Are you sure? The project URL you provided --

pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

?! Of course I am sure. I am looking right at it.

NetBeans simply does not accept http://dellpb/pathtosourcedir/

Is there a solution, or is this limitation hardcoded into NetBeans?

Tomas Mysik · Posted via mailing list.

Hi,

Dne pondělí 22 června 2009 15:51:57 pzbrawl napsal(a):

pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

It's not promising that an issue stopped me in my tracks before I could get started.

It's less promising that registration for reporting issues does not overlap with registration for the forums.

It's less promising still to find, as I just did, that registration for reporting issues is also broken.

Filip Zamboj · Posted via mailing list.

pzbrawl wrote:

pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

The registration page said it would send a password. I received an email saying password instructions "will be sent in a separate email".

That was an hour ago. No such password instruction email has arrived.

Trying to post the registration issue using the website link to the webmaster elicited "Error in param, write webmaster".

On this evidence, NetBeans 6.5.1 is nowhere near ready for release.

pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

Postscript, 7 hrs later:

No password for the issues page has arrived, nor did I get a reply from the webmaster.

Tomas Mysik · Posted via mailing list.

Hi,

Dne pondělí 22 června 2009 16:29:22 pzbrawl napsal(a):

Filip Zamboj · Posted via mailing list.

Well,

sorry if there is some problem with issuezilla registration.

Anyway, you still claim having troubles with the path you need for your
project. Can you determine where the problem occurs? If you write just

http://dellpb/ does it work? If you change the folder for the project, does it work then? It's actually very weird so hard to find source of the problem Sad

.

Thanks a lot!

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Filip Zamboj
Sun Microsystems

http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues.html
http://qa.netbeans.org

pzbrawl wrote:

pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

> sorry if there is some problem with issuezilla registration.

Twenty-four hours have passed. No password has arrived.

>Anyway, you still claim having troubles with the path you need for your
project.

"Claim"!?

> Can you determine where the problem occurs?

?!? It occurs in the NetBeans UI, as described.

> If you write just http://dellpb/ does it work?

It does not. (That points NetBeans to the apache/htdocs folder on that machine. The files are not in htdocs. The files are in a _subfolder_ of htdocs.)

The problematic NetBeans input control is the one labelled "Project URL". If I put the correct URL there, http://dellpb/FullPathToStartingFile, NetBeans complains "Index File must be specified". According to that message, NetBeans insists on an index.php in the target folder. So I write an index.php into that folder for NetBeans, with a header() call to the PHP file which loads the project. NetBeans does not accept that either.

Apparently the problem is that NetBeans accepts only three project possibilities: localhost, a remote project managed via FTP, or command line script. This project, however, is none of those. It lives on another machine on the LAN (the name of the machine being dellpb). Every browser on every machine on the LAN can run that project. NetBeans, running from another machine, cannot.

>If you change the folder for the project, does it work then?

I want to know if NetBeans can work as an IDE for an existing, working PHP webapp without having to move the webapp.

>It's actually very weird so hard to find source of the problem

Rubbish. This is not a hard problem to replicate. Find a machine on a LAN running IIS. Install NetBeans 6.5.1. Run NetBeans and create a new PHP project for existing PHP files on another LAN machine where Apache serves up the PHP files.

pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

I ought to have added: not only can every web browser on every LAN machine run the webapp I am trying to reach via NetBeans, but every PHP IDE on every machine on the LAN, whether it runs under Linux or Windows, can access and manage this PHP project which NetBeans cannot decipher.

pzbrawl · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

No solutions to this problem, apparently. I reported it an a NetBeans issue, but there has been no action on that front either.

I would have thought that ability to manage a project that lives on a LAN machine other than the one where NetBeans is installed is basic. Before I take the time to download, install and try NetBeans 6.7, I'd very much like to hear from anyone who has managed to get it to open an existing PHP project running under Apache 2.2 on another machine on the LAN.