PhpStorm debugger not stopping at BreakPoints; keeps waiting for xdebug _SESSION_

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Answer 1

Took me about an hour until I noticed that this button wasn't activated ;)

"Run" -> "Start Listening for PHP Debug Connections"

Answer 2

For me it was changing the line:

xdebug.remote_host=localhost to xdebug.remote_host=myComputerIP

( Mac user: in terminal run ifconfig to find your ip )

Answer 3

If anyone else runs into this issue and is using Vagrant, this is what finally fixed it for me:

xdebug.remote_host=10.0.2.2

That needs to be the IP address of your local machine from inside the Vagrant box, and 10.0.2.2 is the default. If you ssh into your Vagrant box, it will show the IP where you logged in from if you want to confirm.

I know this isn't directly relevant to the specific setup the OP had, but this post shows up in a lot of xdebug / PhpStorm Google searches so hopefully this can help someone else.

Answer 4

Could be a Firewall.

Day 572... Still haven't slept or eaten... But I finally found the culprit: Windows Defender!

Basically, I had a firewall blocking JetBrains IDE Support chrome extension from sending data to PhpStorm through the default 127.0.0.1:63342 address.

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Day 864... Same issue happened again, this time on Linux... But I finally found the culprit: Ubuntu Firewall!

Seriously, this happened to me again a few months later, using Linux, and it was the firewall again. Disabling the firewall solved it sudo ufw disable - If you care for the firewall and want to keep it enabled, gotta dive in deep on creating some sort of whitelist for it.

Answer 5

There was a syntax error in php.ini. There were extra "quotes" and ;colons;.

Answer 6

I was having this same problem while trying to test a Laravel project using XAMPP on Windows in PHPStorm. I have no idea what exactly I was doing wrong, but I did get it working eventually. I followed the step-by-step instructions on the PHPStorm site here.

One thing I think that was not configured right was that there was no interpreter set up in the PHP menu in Settings.

I was also trying a few too many combinations of settings in my php.ini. These were the settings that I have when things were working:

zend_extension = C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.3.2-5.6-vc11.dll //as recommended from the Xdebug site itself 
xdebug.remote_enable=1=
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"

In my Run/Debug Configurations, I use a PHP Web Application setting, that just starts on the root of the site. (At first, I thought the appended ?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=<xxxxxxx> was a mistake, but it is not). Hopefully that might help if someone else is facing a similar issue.