Xdebug with PHPStorm and a Docker container

Question

Setup: Windows 10; Docker running with Boot2Docker on Hyper-V; PHPStorm 9

Webserver on the VM is Nginx. I\'ve configured the xdebug.ini for php5-fpm as:

Answer 1

What is very strange that host is empty.

PhpStorm requires this field to be filled as it uses this to recognize what server entry (and therefore path mappings) to use -- IDE supports debugging the same code base running on different domains / remote servers.

In this particular case the servername field / parameter of your nginx configuration is empty. You can fix this by providing some value in nginx config file.