I have found a few articles online about debugging Yii (PHP) applications either locally or remotely. All the examples I can find are either the code and server are local (which is easy to setup), or all code is remote (which wasn’t able to work for me).
Basically all my code lives locally through an NFS file mount on a remote server, which runs apache. On the remote server (redhat) I have XDebug setup and installed with php5, but locally (Mac Snow Leopard) is my code and I don’t have a web server setup. I am currently using PHPStorm as my IDE and at home (this environment is at work) I can setup debugging fine with apache (Ubuntu). But I cannot seem to get anything to work when trying to do this remotely at work and was hoping the brains here might be able to help me out.
My bust guess is that your xdebug.remote_host parmaters in your local php.ini are not configured. See the xdebug docs for more information.