Getting PHPStorm working with XDebug

Question

I am trying to get PHPStorm to talk to Xdebug, and am having very little luck.

Here is my setup: I have a VM which shares my php files from my local machine

I am trying to follow this: http://blog.jetbrains.com/webide/2011/02/zero-configuration-debugging-with-xdebug-and-phpstorm-2-0/

I put the following in my php.ini

zend_extension = /usr/lib64/php/modules/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_connect_back = 1
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode = req
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.remote_host = <my ip address>
xdebug.remote_log = /tmp/xdebug_remote.log

It appears I successfully got xdebug running according to phpinfo().

I open my script, turn on the listener. But when I get to the "Activate debugger on server" portion of the tutorial, things fall apart. I download the firefox addon to start the debugger(this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-xdebug/), click the icon to start the debugger, reload the page, but phpstorm does not find it. I also tried adding XDEBUG_SESSION_START=1 as a POST value yet still no luck.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You want your remote_host to be the ip address that the vm sees on your localhost. It's not the IP address you get from your ISP.