I'd like to change the Source Folder for a PHP project that I have set up in NetBeans 6.9. It doesn't look like NetBeans offers any easy way to do this. Does anybody know a way to make this happen?
Thanks...
I'd like to change the Source Folder for a PHP project that I have set up in NetBeans 6.9. It doesn't look like NetBeans offers any easy way to do this. Does anybody know a way to make this happen?
Thanks...
WARNING: Please note that changing src.dir re-opening and rescanning will cause all Netbeans file change history to be lost! Depending on your work style this can cause quite some loss of history, which might or might not be important to you, especially when you don't frequently submit changes to your repository.
I've played around with this a bit and found out how to change the Source Folder for a PHP NetBeans project that has already been created. I'm using NetBeans 6.9 on Ubuntu.
I remember trying to do this with NetBeans 6.8 and ending up with various errors like project scans never completing and such.
However, it turns out that this time it was quite easy to do.
I had the
nbproject
folder inside my source folder. All I had to do was close the project and NetBeans itself, move thenbproject
folder into the new source folder and restart NetBeans again. The project was re-scanned and everything seems to be working.If you're trying to do this and you had the
nbproject
folder outside of your source folder, it would be worth looking atnbproject/project.properties
file.There's a line there with
src.dir=
on it. You should be able to edit this line to update the source location.In my case I had
src.dir=.
, which means the Source Folder was set to be whichever folder is parent to thenbproject
folder.