Step-by-step: How to do Xdebug troubleshooting connection to client IDE

Question

BACKGROUND

Using Xdebug with PHP and Komodo IDE, and Eclipse PDT.

Xdebug is installed on the server and working properly. This is confirmed

Answer 1

This is something I would definitely want to include in the Xdebug documentation. I think it would work best to have many people collaborate on this, so I've created a file in the xdebug.org github repository (https://github.com/derickr/xdebug.org/blob/master/html/docs/tutorials/troubleshooting.rest) to collect tips. Feel free to fork and extend!

On the Xdebug side, in the upcoming version (2.2) it already dumps in its xdebug.remote_log file a couple of extra diagnostics such as whether it tried to connect and whether the connection was accepted or denied.