This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to configure Netbeans IDE for your wordpress theme development in windows operating system. Netbeans is a all-in-one IDE for PHP, C, Java and python applications development. You need to install any one of the AMP packages ( WAMP or XAMPP ) before you configure Netbeans.

I use both WAMP and XAMPP. WAMP under windows and XAMPP under Linux. I have Ubuntu installed in my Virtual Server and XAMPP is running under Linux.

Both WampServer and XAMPP is available for Windows. Both allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin to easily manage your databases.

AMP packages can be installed using installer packages. Once you installed any one of these applications you have the possibility to add as many Apache, MySQL and PHP releases as you want.

Configuring WAMP or XAMPP is very easy and any one can do it with out any issues. All what you need to do is that download the latest package from respective sites and install it. Wamp can be downloaded from here http://www.wampserver.com/en/ and XAMPP can be downloaded here http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Don’t try to install both applications under same environment, you may have issues while sharing ports.

Step-By-Step Guide to Install WAMP How To Install WAMP
Step-By-Step Guide to Install XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html