I have installed Xdebug on a Ubuntu 20.04 system. I followed this documentation , which I found to be quite well written, and got everything installed per the specs. (I used apt rather than yum, and placed the .so file into /usr/lib/php/20190902 folder rather than the document's example.)
In that document, there is a reference to adding to the php.ini file (I added to /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini and /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini files). Since the article doesn't specifically mention "sections" of the .ini file, I put them within the [PHP] section. (This is consistent with the remark about putting right before the Quick Reference bit.) I restarted Apache2 and the phpinfo() output now includes Xdebug, which it did not include before. All well and good.
The trouble I'm having is that although I set xdebug.mode = debug in the php.ini files, the phpinfo() output tells me that xdebug.mode is set to develop. Consequently, Step debugger shows as Disabled in my configuration. I cannot see why.
These are the lines I've added to each of those php.ini files:
zend_extension=xdebug.so
#zend_extension=/usr/lib/php/20190902/xdebug.so
xdebug.mode=debug,develop,trace
[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_connect_back=0
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_port=9900
xdebug.idekey="PHPSTORM"
xdebug.remote_log="/tmp/xdebug.log"
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.show_error_trace = 1
xdebug.log_level = 7
xdebug.start_with_request=yes
xdebug.mode=debug,develop,trace
And here are the key excerpts from the phpinfo() output:
On a whim, I tried placing all of those settings also within a new section of php.ini which I called [xdebug]. When that didn't work, I tried [Xdebug]. I restarted Apache2 after each attempt, but the symptom never changed.
What might I be missing?
For me, being on Ubuntu 22, PHP 8.1 and xdebug 3.1.2, the solution was to edit not the php.ini file but the xdebug.ini. For example :
sudo nano /etc/php/8.1/cli/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini
After this a restart for apache
sudo service apach2 restart
Then I was able see the changes in phpinfo and finally connect to PHPStorm debugger.
I configure xdebug by flowing https://xdebug.org/wizard.php, and I'm pretty sure that I used the right phpize(/opt/lampp/bin/phpize-7.1.28), and after I compile, I put it in /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303/xdebug.so, here is the part of my /opt/lampp/etc/php.ini :
[XDebug]
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
zend_extension = /opt/lampp/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303/xdebug.so
Then, I restart my apache server, when I check out phpinfo, there is still no xdebug.
BTW, is there any possible that my php version can not be configured with xdebug, because I noticed that the extension directory is no-debug-non-zts-20160303
I used https://xdebug.org/wizard.php to check my Xdebug status that I installed using below instruction.
But it's seems not working. I tried with NetBeans Xdebug / Sublime Xdebug Clinets and also PHPStrome, but php files are not hit the debug point.
When I check the php content with I used https://xdebug.org/wizard.php it's also displayed
Xdebug installed : no
Bu I have successfully run all commands and copied the file into xammp's extentions folder.
php.ini conetnt:
;zend_extension=opcache.so
zend_extension="/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/xdebug.so"
[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9001
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"
xdebug.remote_log="/Applications/XAMPP/logs/xdebug.log"
Tried list:
I have tried this one Xdebug on macOS 10.13 with PHP 7 but it's not work for me.
For #streos (I tried to install xdebug via brew but it's won't work for me):
Had problem with permissions, the system didn't let my install xdebug, so I ended up installing another php instead of using the built-in one:
Try this article
In php.ini file
;xdebug Configuration
zend_extension="C:/TenthPlanet/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.0/ext/php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.3-vc6.dll"
zend_debugger.allow_hosts=localhost
zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir="C:/TenthPlanet/wamp/tmp/xdebug"
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_autostart=On
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_log="C:/TenthPlanet/wamp/tmp/xdebug"
But its not installing. When i copied my phpinfo source in xdebug.org/wizrad.php its saying my compiler MSVC6 needs to be upgrade MSVC9 (microsoft visual studio C++). Then I installed the latest one but its not working.
Its not installing properly guys. So whats is the problem ?
My configuration is
PHP - 5.3.0
Apache - 2.2.11
Try using the php_xdebug-2.2.3-5.3-vc9.dll instead or the php_xdebug-2.1.2-5.3-vc6.dll
Alternatively run this wizard on the XDEBUG site, do as it says and copy and paste the output from your phpinfo into it and it will tell you which version you need automatically.
My netbeans does not work the breakpoints using xdebug, my configuration looks correct, so I configured the first time I ran up to stop debugging the first time since then has never worked, someone had this problem? The version of my netbeans is 6.8 and the version of php is 2.5.2.
my php.ini:
zend_extension_ts = d:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5\ext\php_xdebug-2.0.2-5.2.5.dll
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.idekey=netbeans-xdebug
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
In my case this line needed to be included in the php.ini:
xdebug.remote_autostart=on
Here is the configuration section for XDebug:
[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_enable = on
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"
xdebug.remote_autostart=on
xdebug.profiler_enable = on
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = on
xdebug.profiler_output_name = cachegrind.out.%t.%p
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "d:/wamp/tmp"
Checklist for xdebug:
Check that xdebug is loaded in phpinfo(), and the runtime value matches expected configuration.
xdebug.remote_enable is on.
xdebug.extended_info should be on for breakpoints to work.
xdebug.remote_port must be same as ide and unused.
xdebug.remote_handler is dbgp.
xdebug.idekey should be set to same as ide's key if xdebug.remote_autostart is on.
Sometimes it help to set xdebug.remote_host to intranet IP or computer name instead of local ip 127.0.0.1. PHP must be allowed by Firewall to connect to this host and port.
Setting xdebug.remote_log to a file will help in checking what is wrong. Disable the log once debug is working.
Sample config:
[xdebug]
xdebug.extended_info=on
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_autostart=on
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"
Checklist for NetBeans:
Firewall must allow Netbeans to listen for connection with configured host.
Tools -> Options -> PHP -> Debugging, check port. Also check session id if xdebug.remote_autostart is on.
Project type must be PHP.
Project Properties -> Source, web root must be correct.
Project Properties -> Run Configuration, index file need to be a php (or empty) for Ctrl+F5 to work.
Project Properties -> Run Configuration -> Advanced, debug url should be "Default" or "Ask Everytime".
Project Properties -> Run Configuration -> Advanced, path mapping must be correct. (e.g. empty if there are no mappings)
(Most default options work out of the box, so if you are desperate try to delete and recreate the project.)
False Instructions, tested on PHP 5.5 and xdebug 2.2:
PHP output_buffering does not need to be off. (But may help in debugging)
OPCache (Zend Cache) module can be loaded.
xdebug.profiler_enable can be enabled.
Please edit this answer if you found something new.
Check that you have the right version of Xdebug for your version of PHP (including Thread-safe/non-thread-safe and 64bit/32bit).
In some newer versions of PHP, you need to use zend_extension, not zend_extension_ts, regardless of whether you have the TS version of Xdebug.
(I am replying with an Answer since the formatting in comments wasn't working properly)
Same happened for me: worked once and then stopped. However, I reached a point in my config where it started working without problems and I can share.
First I moved on top of php.ini the ioncube loader:
[PHP]
zend_extension=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/zend/lib/ioncube_loader_dar_5.2.so
Then I put these lines in the xdebug config:
[xdebug]
zend_extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xdebug.so"
xdebug.default_enable=1
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
And commented out all the lines about Zend Optimizer
[Zend]
;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3
;zend_optimizer.version=3.3.3
I work on MAMP, this is why the paths to my libraries are referred to my MAMP folder.
Good luck
zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.2.3-5.4-vc9.dll"xdebug.remote_enable = 1 xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"xdebug.remote_host = "localhost" xdebug.remote_port="9000" xdebug.remote_mode=req xdebug.trace_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp" xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"
this is working for me..
Here's how I was able to get it to work w/ mulitple PHP-FPM homebrew installations.
I used this excellent article for the multiple installations:
https://echo.co/blog/os-x-1010-yosemite-local-development-environment-apache-php-and-mysql-homebrew
In the comments of that post you'll see recommended how to install xdebug, bottom line:
brew install php56-xdebug
You have to install xdebug for each verions of PHP you have installed. Homebrew will make a xdebug.ini file for each version of php you installed. Each will have a path like:
/usr/local/etc/php/<version # i.e. "5.6">/conf.d/ext-xdebug.ini
This article installs DNSMasq which runs on xdebug's default port (9000), so you'll need to change the xdebug port to something else (9001 works fine.)
Edit the above mentioned ext-xdebug.ini file (or files if you installed more than one version of php.) Here's what works for me:
[xdebug]
zend_extension="/usr/local/opt/php56-xdebug/xdebug.so"
; General config
; Dumps local variables on exception
xdebug.show_local_vars=On
; Dump server variables
xdebug.dump.SERVER=*
; Dump global variables
xdebug.dump_globals=On
xdebug.collect_params=4;
; Tracing
;xdebug.auto_trace=On
;xdebug.trace_output_dir= /opt/local/php_traces/
xdebug.show_mem_delta=On
xdebug.collect_return=On
; Debugging. You might need to specify your host with some additional options
xdebug.remote_enable=1
: from http://devzone.zend.com/1147/debugging-php-applications-with-xdebug/
xdebug.remote_host="localhost"
xdebug.remote_port=9001
xdebug.remote_handler="dbgp"
The first two lines are all that is in the original homebrew file.
BTW - when I installed multiple PHP versions, this ext-xdebug.ini file was only created for the first PHP version I installed. I simply copied this file to the other PHP version locations, and changed the "php56-xdebug" part of the path in line 2 to reflect the proper php version.
Notice "xdebug.remote_port=9001"
Then in Netbeans (I'm using 8.02 Mac osX10.10.3) I use the following settings.
Go to Preferences->PHP->Debugging
Debugger Port: 9001
Stop at First Line: (unchecked)
Watches & Balloon Evaluation: (checked - there's a warning but it works fine for me.)
Also worth noticing is that in order for xdebug to show up using phpinfo() (or command line php -i) I need to restart apache with:
launchctl unload -Fw ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php56.plist
sudo apachectl restart
launchctl load -Fw ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php56.plist
For some reason my setup requires me to run this every time I startup. Kind of a pain, but I incorporated it in a shell command to easily switch between versions.
One more hint: part of brew info php56 says:
OS X 10.8 and newer come with php-fpm pre-installed, to ensure you are using
the brew version you need to make sure /usr/local/sbin is before /usr/sbin
in your PATH:
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"
Until I added this to my .profile_bash file, changes I made to each version's php-fpm.conf file were not recognized. Everything else seemed to work so it was confusing.
Hope this saves someone else time & trouble.
If you are still stuck you could try the following:
Download a new version of xdebug via the wizard (http://www.xdebug.org/wizard.php) and if you follow the instructions maybe you will be lucky.
Switching off the firewall might help.
Use a different port in netbeans, for instance in my case using 9001 in netbeans and 9000 in xdebug worked.
Add to php.ini file: xdebug.idekey=netbeans-xdebug.
Find out if you have a xdebug.ini file and add the xdebug related php.ini lines to that file.
Always make sure that you restart your apache service to test everything.
In my case - host is on another server, Net-beans 11 - I need to open terminal to remotehost
Window -> IDE Tools -> Terminal -> Remote Terminal
P.S. If u type export XDEBUG_CONFIG="idekey=netbeans-xdebug" in that terminal, and start debugging session, u can debug console scripts