Netbeans waiting for connection to XDEBUG

Question

Netbeans won\'t connect to xdebug. I\'ve tried suggestions from the following posts:

Debugging IDE's port connection to XDebug: "Waiting to Connect"

Answer 1

**On Windows 10 with Netbeans 8.0 running Netbeans built in webserver **

The following options in the php.ini file resolved the issue for me:

zend_extension ='C:\path to php installation\ext\php_xdebug-2.5.0-5.6-vc11.dll' xdebug.remote_enable=on

This issue for me seemed to be resolved by using the full path to the .dll file. Also, because I had spaces in the path name I had to enclose the path in quotes (double vs single did not seem to matter). Also, I had to set the xdebug.remote_enable option. Once I set both options, I was able to select the Debug Application option within Netbeans and the debugger started.