Cannot debug with PhpStorm + Vagrant + XDebug

Question

I cannot get XDebug to work with PhpStorm and Vagrant on a Windows 7 machine. I've already followed every tutorial on getting this to work but with no luck.

So what I've tried is:

• PhpStorm always listens to debug connections
• xdebug.ini file with the following:

zend_extension = "..../xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_enable= 1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host= 33.33.33.10
xdebug.remote_port= 9000
xdebug.remote_connect_back= 1
xdebug.remote_autostart= 1
xdebug.remote_log = "...."

• Setup PhpStorm to connect to localhost:8080 and too 33.33.33.10, both with no luck.
• The log file always outputs:

I: Checking remote connect back address.
W: Remote address not found, connecting to configured address/port: 33.33.33.10:9000. :-|
E: Could not connect to client. :-(

• The firewall (ESET Smart Security) is always turned-off when I try to debug
• Set path mappings, didn't work either

I just don't know what to do, but I really NEED to be able to debug.
Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

The problem was very stupid - I forwarded port 9000 in the Vagrantfile, and I didn't have to do so...

Now, actually I see that the only necessary lines in xdebug.ini are:

zend_extension = ...
xdebug.remote_enable = on
xdebug.remote_connect_back = on

The setup is pretty straightforward, if you don't do stupid things...

Answer 2

Make sure you connect to the right url from within PHPStorm. My vagrant box has the ip of 192.168.50.2 for instance, so i have to set the url of my project => 192.168.50.2

Answer 3

I had to set

xdebug.remote_connect_back = '0'
xdebug.remote_host= '10.0.2.2'

so my whole config looks like this:

xdebug.default_enable: '1'
xdebug.remote_autostart: '1'
xdebug.remote_connect_back: '0'
xdebug.remote_enable: '1'
xdebug.remote_handler: dbgp
xdebug.remote_host: '10.0.2.2'
xdebug.max_nesting_level: '400'

Host: Linux

VM: Vagrant with PuPHPet using VirtualBox

nothing special to configure in PhpStorm

found it here: http://jeromejaglale.com/doc/php/xdebug_vagrant_puphpet_phpstorm