I made a mistake and allowed Ubuntu 18.04 updates to be installed. NetBeans 12.1 cannot connect to Xdebug after doing this with the same configuration. I think the problem is with the newer version of Xdebug (3.0.2).
# cat /etc/php/7.2/apache2/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini
zend_extension=xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_log="/var/log/xdebug.log"
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_port=9003
Anyone faced such problem?
I have spent a whole day and a half trying to get the NetBeans ISE 12.0 debugger working - it was always hanging on “Waiting For Connection (netbeans-xdebug)”.
I have now solved this - as you say, Xdebug version 3 is very different to version 2 and most of the documentation on the web has not caught up. This is the page that you need: Upgrade Guide
This is the configuration that works for me (I kept my IDE setting to use port 9000):
zend_extension=/usr/lib/php/20180731/xdebug.so
xdebug.mode=debug
xdebug.start_with_request=trigger
xdebug.client_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.client_port=9000
The problem:
I can not get xdebug to work with PhpStorm or NetBeans in localhost. I have the proper Xdebug ext installed based on the wizard. I can see Xdebug is installed properly from phpinfo() and php -v output. I got a new hard drive at work with a new OS install and ever since then I can't get Xdebug setup to work.
I can not get the breakpoints to hit when accessing the application through the web/Postman. It's like the breakpoints aren't there or no connection is detected. There is no log file generated.
What does work:
In PhpStorm I hit the debug phpunit.xml icon then it runs my PHPUnit tests and Xdebug does work, breakpoints are hit, and log files are generated.
I have tried:
Many versions of Xdebug including 2.55, 2.60, 2.61 both 64 and 32 bit and both thread safe and non thread safe
Hosting with php -S and with XAMPP Apache
NetBeans and PhpStorm
My php.ini xdebug section
[Xdebug]
zend_extension=C:\xampp7.1\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.6.1-7.1-vc14.dll
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.var_display_max_depth = -1
xdebug.var_display_max_children = -1
xdebug.var_display_max_data = -1
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_log=C:\xampp7.1\php\ext\xdebug.log
xdebug.idekey="PHPSTORM"
I don't know what else to try. I thought maybe it could be a company firewall issue or something but none of my coworkers have this issue nor did I before the new HD. I'm on Windows 10 Enterprise could it be some Windows configuration?
Credit to LazyOne for figuring out the solution!
Adding xdebug.remote_autostart=1 to the php.ini worked! Thanks so much
I am trying to debug with NetBeans Mac locally.
This is my php.ini
[xdebug]
xdebug.default_enable=1
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
xdebug.remote_log="/Applications/MAMP/logs/xdebug.log"
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"
zend_extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/xdebug.so"
This is what I had been getting in xdebug.log
I: Connecting to configured address/port: localhost:9000.
E: Could not connect to client. :-(
I try changing the port to 9001 and turn off firewall and it didn't help.
Xdebug's default port (9000) conflicts with FastCGI (Xdebug was first!) - the solution is to change it to another port. After having done that, you need to restart your IDE where you will also need to configure the new port. You will also need to restart PHP and your Web Server.
Step 1:
Change xdebug.remote_port=9000 to xdebug.remote_port=9001
Step 2:
Change the debugging port in Netbeans. Go to Tools >> Options >> Click PHP tab
Under PHP tab click debugging
Change the debugger port : 9001
Change Session ID : netbeans-xdebug
Step 3:
Restart server and netbeans
Step 4:
Set a breakpoint and try
I had exact the same problem.
The xdebug installion wizard (https://xdebug.org/wizard.php) showed that my xdebug was correctly installed. (The wizard told me to install the Xdebug 2.5.0rc1 dll)
In phpinfo I also got a xdebug section showing (in my opinion) the correct values. Even with this I got a "could not connect to client" message in the error log.
Eventually I solved it by trial and error doing the following:
Downloaded all the older versions of the xdebug dll's for my php version and tried them all. Eventually one of them worked. For me it was with php 5.6.8 the xdebug 2.4.1 dll (PHP 5.6 VC11 TS (32 bit) ) on a windows 7 32 bit machine. I am using xampp-win32-5.6.8-0-VC11.zip for my xampp installation.
What I learned was the following:
(a) The Xdebug wizard does not neccesarily give the correct dll to use
(b) Even though phpinfo shows a Xdebug section with correct variables this does not necessarily mean that it is correct.
(c) Try older versions of the dll's if you get this error.
I have the latest Xampp and Php 5.3 on Mac Mountain Lion oSX 10.8.2. I just installed Xdebug and configured it in the php.ini. I downloaded from this link and followed the instructions. Also put the following entries in php.ini
[Xdebug]
zend_extension=”/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/php-5.3.1/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/xdebug.so”
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/temp"
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_host = "localhost"
xdebug.remote_enable = On
xdebug.trace_output_dir = "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/temp"
Php -m displays the Xdebug modules but the phpinfo() does not show Xdebug. Read the solutions to questions Why is xdebug not showing up in phpinfo() and No xdebug in phpinfo() and it does not work for me. Note: I have restarted my Apache from Xampp Control multiple times.
Suggestions on
Any ways to rectify this?
Would Xdebug still work for me on my Eclipse Studio?
How can I provide permission to httpd to access Xdebug on Moutain Lion?
Thanks.
Make sure that the zend_extension path actually exists your your machine.
Your particular path seems like it is not valid.
zend_extension=”/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/php-5.3.1/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/xdebug.so”
I made the mistake of copying and pasting the path from some tutorial, but mine was actually located on this path:
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/xdebug.so
Also, make sure that you are editing /Applications//XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/php.ini, which is the php.ini associated with XAMPP. Which can easily be confused with /etc/php.ini which may be present on your machine.
Here is what I added to my php.ini for reference:
[xdebug]
zend_extension="/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-2012121/xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
So this was more of a port issue on Mountain Lion. By default 9000 is assigned by Mac for firewall stuff and it kept assigning various ports for one or the other thing. I utilized Network Utility Port Scan on Mac to check for available ports. Also running the php script described below may give some debugging info as provided here
The detailed Configuring Eclipse part from this Stack Overflow Question helped the most.
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