Setting up xamp environment with netbeans, mercurial, and Zend Framework

Install mercurial for windows for NetBeans integration

Add mercurial bin directory to the windows path

Add xampp php to the windows path

Add the Zend Framework bin folder to the windows path

Execute zf tool commands from the windows powershell

zf create project zend-sample

Add the following to the httpd-vhosts.conf (and uncommment the NameVirtualHost line)

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin postmaster@dummy-host2.localhost

DocumentRoot "C:\Users\matt\Documents\NetBeansProjects\zend-sample\public"

ServerName zend-sample

ServerAlias www.zend-sample

ErrorLog "logs/zend-sample-error.log"

CustomLog "logs/zend-sample-access.log" combined

<Directory C:\Users\matt\Documents\NetBeansProjects\zend-sample\public>

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride All

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Add to the hosts file:

127.0.0.1 zend-sample www.zend-sample

Add the zend framework library path to the include_path in the php.ini

Restart apache

Add the .hgignore

nbproject

In netbeans add the zend framework library to the include path