Remote debugging with XDebug and PHPStorm

Question

First things first:

• Server is an Apache running on Debian in a VMPlayer
• Host is Windows 7
• Debugging-Server is XDebug
• Files are directly

Answer 1

If you are still having problems, there are two blog posts by the makers on how to set things up correctly.

First should work in most cases and requires zero-configuration other than a working xdebug install

Second details all of the configuration settings in detail

Answer 2

To 'see' the profile.ini in the PHP Storm 'Select File' Dialog simply rightclick inside of it and choose 'Show hidden files' then (in WIn7) move to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox or the equivalent in your OS

Answer 3

1. Ensure that remote debugging is enabled in php.ini

   xdebug.remote_enable = 1

2. Your server "192.168.56.128" should be in PHP-> Servers

3. Add PHP Web Application Debug Configuration, and use added server
4. Set a breakpoint and start debugging using this configuration

Answer 4

Okay, there are three things I'd like to share with you. It's not the full recipe but the key ingredients that were first confusing me are:

1. The important sections to configure are "Servers" and "PHP Remote Debugging".

2. To configure "PHP Remote Debugging" you have to first add a new dataset using the [+] in the top left corner. The panel you get from just clicking on the "PHP R D"-button just keeps the default settings!

3. Absolute path regarding the VM actually means the absolute path starting from root (\mnt\hgfs\sf\Symfony). This was confusing to me cause I am still not sure why PhpStorm cares about directory levels above the shared folder. but it does.