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

Had same issue:

$ netstat | grep 9000
...
tcp6       1      0 localhost:9000          localhost:37486         CLOSE_WAIT

Solution: Restart NetBeans. There was running a dead Process waiting for connections.

Here Netbeans with a running debug session. Note the CLOSE_WAIT and TIME_WAIT.

tcp6       0      0 localhost:9000          localhost:38166         TIME_WAIT