Changing default location for debugging in WebStorm

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I'm having difficulty to configure my project. My project is name web and is also the main folder, my index.html is in that folder. But when I use the debugging tools I'm forced to go to http://localhost:port/web/index.html or I get a 404.

My problem is that it can't be in a subfolder, it needs to be in http://localhost:port/index.html or it won't work.

So the web folder is there but I don't want to have it affect my link. If I add the web folder in the URL it goes to right page, but my project won't work if the URL is changed.

My question: Is there any way to change the path to my project so I can access my index.html without adding the /web/ in my URL?


NOTE: I can't change my project to adapt to the new path.

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Andriy Bazanov
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Hi there,

What do you mean by "localhost:port" ? Is it "localhost:63342" ?

If so:

  • you are using WebSorm's own simple web server which uses these kind of URLs: "localhost:port/ProjectName/index.html"
  • yes -- you can change URL to get rid of the "/web/" part .. but the URL has to be "http://ProjectName:port/index.html" as IDE needs to know what project you are accessing (to know what files to serve).
  • for that:

    1. Edit your 

      hosts
      file (or local DNS server, if preferred and have one) and point ProjectName to your computer's IP.

    2. Create Deployment entry of correct type (

      In Place
      should do), configure it (provide desired URL etc -- 
      http://ProjectName:63342/
      ) and mark it as Default for this project -- now IDE will use URL from here when generating "open in browser" URLs.
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So I want my website to use the format http://ProjectName:port/index.html

The thing is that I did everything like you said, but it still doesn't work. When I use debug it opens an empty tab in chrome.

My projectname is : web

In my host file I have: 127.0.0.1      web
Deployment settings:
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Andriy Bazanov
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Working fine here. Must be something else...

What do you have when you execute "ping web" in console?

If I use 127.0.0.1 it works; if I use "proper" IP (192.168.0.2) then it does not (works now after restarting IDE).

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Andriy Bazanov
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What you may also try (just to see if it will make any difference):

1) Enable "Can accept external connections" at "Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Debugger"
2) Restart IDE
3) You may see "Built-in HTTP server on custom port 63342 disabled" message .. but it still works OK.

There is no need to enable "Can accept external connections" if IP = 127.0.0.1 (localhost) .. it's just for testing purpose (if this will make any difference)

Double check using netstat or any GUI-based tool that PhpStorm listens on that port and that it is not blocked in your Firewall.

For me these 2 URLs provide the same result:

http://localhost:63342/IDE-test/testing/html.html
http://ide-test:63342/testing/html.html



https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/Using+the+Built-in+Webserver+in+PhpStorm

Unfortunately this manual is very brief and has no mention of "projectName:63342" option for some reason, despite the fact that this possibility gets mentioned by devs every time, e.g.
http://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2013/03/built-in-server-in-webstorm-6/ --> http://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2013/03/built-in-server-in-webstorm-6/#comment-355

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So I tried everything, the thing is that I can do a ping to web without problem and I see web:63342 in my netstat.

I can still access the website using http://web:63342/web/index.html by adding /web/ in the url, but I still can't access it using http://web:63342/index.html which is the page that is loaded when I click the debuggin button.

Using the Can accept external connections the page loaded to http://web:63342/index.html, but like I said not the right url.

It's weird, because the debugger launch the write page, but the file are link to the wrong url, so I can't load my page.

Also thank you for helping.

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Andriy Bazanov
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Using the Can accept external connections the page loaded to http://web:63342/index.html, but like I said not the right url.

It's weird, because the debugger launch the write page, but the file are link to the wrong url, so I can't load my page.

I'm confused here.

I don't think I can be helfull here any more without seeing/trying some sample code myself...

P.S.
Maybe you have more than one project called "web".. so IDE serves the wrong file?

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Using the Can accept external connections the page loaded to http://web:63342/index.html, but like I said not the right url.

Here I meant that unless I changed the url, it didn't load anything... I had to add the /web/ so that it would load something, but still I couldn't load everything because of my code.

I checked and it's my only project name web.

I'm totally lost, I tried everything and it should work, but it doesn't. I even tried another port.

Still thank you for your help.
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Andriy Bazanov
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Suggestion then: please create brand new empty project, give it a unique name and try it there on one simple HTMl file.

i.e.

  1. Create new empty folder: C:\Projects\web123
  2. "File | Open Directory" --> open that folder. project will be called by it's folder by default
  3. Edit your hosts file (127.0.0.1 web123) and do a deployment entry as suggested before
  4. Create simple .html file
  5. Try "Open in Browser" on that file.
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For the little bit i understand ... when i create a  fake domain using  apache virtual host and change the windows host file content , the mail ( php Mail  API ) in my windows OS local server ( php dynamic content redirection CMS) don't work  it is the  mess   !!!
Change setting in OS , application level don't have to create new problem !!!  and I dont want to waste my time to install Sendmail or SMTP on my Windows OS (most free smtp server are on linux  ) .
I l lalways find cubersome the way phpstorm  use/ configure  it own local http server  and server location  and mapping access  !!

As always issue is because we don't understand things ( the "logical"  way  phpstrom has implemented its own gui to configure it own IDE  )

Main documentation of phpstrom is base on static php file and not CMS where redirection is handle in the server side !!
i hope i write wrong things  but noto easy to configure it ( i already succeed but not in all case )

regard's

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