Why does xdebug not establish connection with NetBeans?

Question

I try using xdebug with NetBeans to debug PHP. I start debug, and NetBeans waits for ever for a connection with xdebug. I have NetBeans 6.8 (latest version) with the latest

Answer 1

I used the following with XAMPP 1.8.2 and NetBeans 7.4 with success.

[XDebug]
zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"
xdebug.profiler_append = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 0
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"
xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"
xdebug.remote_enable = on
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_host = "localhost"
xdebug.trace_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"