

This also makes WordPress development easier since you have to configure a siteurl and a home for the site. To navigate around this I recommend that you use a static IP on your machine or make your DHCP server always assign you the same one. When I was testing this out I got the server to bind to any and all IP addresses the machine had but when I restarted Webmatrix it just crashes.

Webmatrix relies on IIS express in the background and is therefor fully configurable like it was a normal IIS server. Out of the box it doesn’t support this but here is how you set it up. It works out of the box for testing on localhost but not everybody is running 1080p monitors and I need to test on my phone, tablet and laptop as well. Lately I have been using it to create a new responsive theme for this website. It will quickly setup a development environment on your computer so you can start develop. It automates the process of installing frameworks, compilers and database backends. It supports a range of languages, frameworks and CMS like WordPress for instance. Webmatrix 3 is a free tool by Microsoft for web development.
