Tonight, rather than playing with all these new toys, I was able to setup WebMatrix as an IDE for an existing PHP website I manage. A screenshot (clicky, please):
It's pretty, by far the best looking PHP IDE I've tried. And easy to use; everything about it screams simplicity (which is good and bad: no intellisense, no right-click context menu). Still a huge improvement over my previous editor: Filezilla and TextPad :)
Two big complaints: the Publish functionality wasn't working well for me (I update to an ftp site, WebMatrix updates *all* files everytime) and my site doesn't render perfectly in the browser (css-related stuff, not sure if it's an IIS Express).
I did have to go through a bit of pain to get IIS Express to render php pages. Detailed issue below:
- Trying to load a .php page, I recieved a HTTP 404.3 error: "The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map."
- The handler is not present! I spent quite a bit of time trying to manually update the .config file (I think I was updating the wrong one - %WebMatrixInstall%/config/applicationHost.config?? Anybody know?) before finding this post which details how to add a php handler to IIS 7.0 and IIS 7.5 (and IIS Express, which is based on IIS 7.5) via appcmd.exe.
And how to fix it:
- Open a command prompt at your WebMatrix install directory (mine is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft WebMatrix"
- For the following command, replace the scriptProcessor parameter with your proper path to php-cgi.exe and run: " appcmd set config /section:handlers /+"[name='PHP_via_FastCGI',scriptProcessor='C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php-cgi.exe',path='*.php',verb='*',modules='FastCgiModule',resourceType='Either']" "
- Do the same with this command: " appcmd set config -section:system.web
Server/fastCgi /+"[fullpath='C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php-cgi.exe']" /commit:a
pphost " - It works (for me)!
All in all, I was very impressed with WebMatrix and IIS Express. I'll be using WebMatrix to manage my PHP site in the future and I hope to play with Razor and SQL Express soon!
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