Comments on: Install PHP applications with WebMatrix

By: ershadul

ershadul — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:07:55 +0000

Notice the port number used in the URL. This is not the standard port 80 used by default in IIS. The site is not running on IIS that is included with operating system. Instead WebMatrix installs and uses IIS Developer Express, which is a developer-focused version of IIS that runs on all versions of Windows, starting from Windows XP. This is actually very cool because now it is possible to get the latest and greatest IIS features on Windows XP instead of using the good old IIS 5.1 as development web server . But even if you already have Windows 7, you may still want to use IIS Developer Express, because with that you do not need to enable real IIS Web Server included with OS on your development machine.

Even though IIS Developer Express is a lightweight development server it comes with everything needed to run PHP applications, including the latest version of FastCGI module and URL Rewrite 2.0. This means that after you install WordPress with WebMatrix you can enable WordPress’ pretty permalinks by following the instructions at IIS URL Rewrite Module support in WordPress.

Note: By default WebMatrix and IIS Developer Express are not configured to run PHP even if PHP is already installed on the machine. To work this around install any PHP application via WebMatrix UI. This way WebMatrix will configure IIS Developer Express to handle PHP requests. This is something that will be fixed in future releases of WebMatrix.

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:27:06 +0000

Hi. Web Matrix is a great help for writing C# code. Now we have the php as well. But does Web Matrix provide any kind of help for writing php code. An intellegencer or something like that?

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By: Naeem

Naeem — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:16:46 +0000

Hi Ruslany,

Hi have installed wordpress on web matrix, when i try to start it, it shows this error ‘wordpress’ has stopped. it never starts, any help will be appreciated. P.S im on Win7

By: ruslany

ruslany — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:20:05 +0000

Hi Shamil,

As far as I know the Visual Web Developer is an IDE for ASP.NET. It does not provide support for PHP. There is a Visual Studio plugin for PHP, but it is different from Visual Web Developer.

If comparing Visual Web Developer and WebMatrix for editing ASP.NET files then VWD is more advanced and powerful and is more suited for professional ASP.NET development. WebMatrix is much simpler and is targeted for beginner deverlopers.

By: Shamil Nunhuck

Shamil Nunhuck — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:18:31 +0000

It’s a shame that it won’t be a fully blown IDE – it’s certainly the best looking application I’ve seen to edit files. I’m a PHP developer, and I’m currently using phpDesigner. I would have been looking forward to this more, if it became more of an IDE. Just one thing though, what’s the difference between this an Visual Web Developer? Is it that WebMatrix is more “user friendly”?

Anyway, congrats

By: ruslany

ruslany — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 02:38:11 +0000

Hi Keith,

Yes, you should be able to use both XAMPP and WebMatrix on the same machine.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:03:45 +0000

Hi Ruslany
I’ve been using XAMPP for local install but this looks fantastic!

Notice that you say…

“Notice the port number used in the URL. This is not the standard port 80 used by default in IIS. ”

XAMPP uses port 80 so presumably I could use both XAMPP and WebMatrix without any conflicts?

Thanks for the tutorial.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:45:46 +0000

Hi Mustafa, what is the PHP error that you are getting?

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:08:55 +0000

hi ruslany

iis7 and php i saw a error

php mysql command
mysql_real_escape_string and
mysql_num_rows

cant work

i try different sample but cant