First things first:
- Server is an Apache running on Debian in a VMPlayer
- Host is Windows 7
- Debugging-Server is XDebug
- Files are directly accessible via a shared folder
Important: XDebug is properly configured on Apache and my Win7 firewall as well. I know that b/c I can debug using Eclipse.
So what I am failing at seems to be the basic configuration of PHPStorm.
Let me give you some more details:
- IP of Server: 192.168.56.128
- IP of my host: 192.168.56.1
the file that I want to debug is index.php:
- location on my Win7 host: C:\dev\sf\Symfony\
- location on Debian: \mnt\hgfs\sf\Symfony\
- URL: 192.168.56.128/Symfony/index.php
No matter what I fiddle together … I get weired error messages like “Waiting for connection from JetBrains PhpStorm…” or PHPStorm asks me for Mozillas profile.ini, even though I configured Chrome as Default in Web Browsers.
So I will just set up a new project and hopefully someone tells me what is wrong with my configuration.
Run / Edit configurations / Defaults / PHP Remote Debugging:
- Server: “Debian”
- IDE key: –
- Break at first line: yes
Servers:
- Name: “Debian”
- Host: 192.168.56.128
- Port: 80
- Debugger: Xdebug
- use path mappings: yes
- one path mapping configured:
C:\dev\sf\Symfony => /mnt/hgfs/sf/Symfony (also tried /Symfony – b/c PHPStorm shouldn’t care about anything above /Symfony !?)
Run / Edit configurations / Defaults / PHP Web Application:
- Server: “Debian”
- Start URL: /Symfony
- Browser: Chrome
- Break on first line: yes
Now I choose: Run / Debug … / 1.index.php
And I get asked for: Mozilla’s profile.ini … but I can’t find it
Where is it … ?
I already got so far that PHPStorm started Chrome. But maybe I first sort this out. So how can I get Firefox up and running? I also use Firefox with Eclipse … no questions asked for a profile.ini.
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:
The important sections to configure are “Servers” and “PHP Remote Debugging”.
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!
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.