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Hello, I have been trying to set up a nice debugging environment on my developing machine and I haven't been doing much progress. I am using OSX to run PHPStorm and my Laravel 5.1 is running on an Ubuntu Vagrant Box. So I installed xdebug on my MAC using brew and configure my PHP interpreter to point to /usr/bin/php on and set the php.ini to point to the executable there. PHPStorm has to picked up on that. My question is: Shouldn't Xdebug be running on the server? Has anybody done this setup before?
Well right now it sounds like you can debug locally. Just turn on debug in Storm and set a breakpoint in a controller. It should stop and display it in Storm. You need to install xdebug remotely on the sever. Both in the HTTP PHP and the CLI PHP if you want to debug command line PHP. Make sure the xdebug port is open in remote server, i.e. not blocked by the OS. Config Storm session to remote server. Storm support site has great videos on doing this.
jimmck Thanks for the reply. So if I can debug locally, does that mean I have to configure Apache on the Mac to run the site? Can I run php and xdebug locally and point the server to the remote server on vagrant? I am following this article now:
http://www.sitepoint.com/install-xdebug-phpstorm-vagrant/
I will see how it goes.
Hi,
No you have a local server and a remote server. You have to add xdebug to each php.ini local and remote. Brew makes that easy on a MAC. As far as Apache goes, just make sure to install xdebug in the PHP it is using, local or remote.
Here is a video from Jeffrey on XDEBUG: https://laracasts.com/series/how-to-be-awesome-in-phpstorm/episodes/20
@bobbybouwmann I followed Jeffrey's video, but I think he is running everything locally.
I believe he is, but since you use mac it's really easy to setup a php environment on your local machine. However I'm a big fan of Homestead and I use it on my mac as well, but never had the needs to use XDEBUG. As mentioned before you need to set it up correctly on your server and locally.
I found this tutorial between my favourites: http://www.sitepoint.com/install-xdebug-phpstorm-vagrant/
@prodigy10 Hey. What are your specific issues? I dont use Vagrant, but I looked at the settings in your link. As long as you can confirm it uses 20-xdebug.ini. Make sure the ports in Storm matchup with server settings. You may need to set an IDKEY.
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