Issue
Today I installed netbeans on my home computer to do some work at home. I installed the java 8 JDK (151) and installed netbeans with everything included (didn't do a custom install). I then pulled my project down from github.
My install folder for netbeans is on E:\netbeans My project folder is the default on c:
I loaded the project, turned on XAMPP and ran it. Great, it works.
Then I made a change to the HTML (fixes a spelling mistake I made). Ran it again. It didn't take the change.
I made sure I had saved - still borked
I made sure Firefox was not caching my page - still borked
I tried it in a different browser, one that had never opened the project before - borked
I rebooted netbeans - borked
I deleted the cache in netbeans -borked
I rebooted my computer - borked.
Google searches for "Netbeans not applying changes" or similar things are not returning me with anything useful (all of the same it is the browsers cache, I have caching turned off in Firefox using about:config and I turned of memory and cache)
Windows 10 system Netbeans 8.2 up to date (there are no updates available) Project is HTML,PHP to a XAMPP database.
Anyone have some advice on this?
Edit: as suggested I ran it in Admin mode. It still behaved the same.
I am running it through Netbeans but I then just navigated to the page without clicking run in netbeans and it is the same.
Solution
So I figured this out and will post it here in case anyone else looks into it.
I installed netbeans and xampp on my E drive. The project I was editing was on the C drive in xampp/htdocs. When I would save it would save there. I am unsure how this happened but on the E drive was another copy of the project. When I ran the project it would run from the folder E:\xampp\htdocs instead of where the project was in c:\xampp\htdocs. Keep in mind, when you install xampp is will make the C: folder regardless of where you say to install it.
Anyway, if you are having this problem and you have two hard drives look and make sure there is not a duplicate project in the two htdocs. If there is, you might be saving to one and running the other.
Answered By - RvrTex
Answer Checked By - Katrina (JavaFixing Volunteer)
