Now your machine will be treated as localhost, and communication can happen without issues. Since you have SSH access to the server, you can create a tunneling protocol ssh -R 9000:localhost:9000 _server_host Because the server would try to reach your IP using the port 9000, and chances that your ISP has that port open are low. Then why did we configured it that way? Xdebug has the option to remote debugging, you could set your IP address there and voila! No, you couldn’t, at least not so easy. If you try to debug your application now, using the browser extension you’ll send a flag to the server and it’ll run Xdebug, tehn it’ll try to communicate with the address you configured in xdebug.remote_host, but it won’t make it since we configured it as localhost. Now, you’ll need a browser extension that helps you trigger the debugger (I use Xdebug helper for Chrome). Go to Preferences -> Languages & frameworks -> PHP -> Serversīelow, (I’m assuming you have the project code in your machine, we said you can’t run it locally, but you’ll still need the code) map the folders (paths) of the code in your local machine and the server. Go to Preferences -> Languages & frameworks -> PHP -> Debug
Xdebug.remote_log=/var/log/apache2/xdebug.logĪs I said, I’m using PHPStorm, but any IDE configuration should be similar. conf file inside your conf.d folder, it depends on the server’s OS) xdebug.remote_enable=1
The Xdebug configuration goes in the php.ini file (or in a specific.
SSH to the remote server and install Xdebug sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug (Debian based servers) Configure Xdebug
I won’t go trough the basics on how to use the debugger or about the magic behind the debug session (plenty of blog posts on this already). So you’re back already, huh? I know why, because I too spent hours searching for documentation, blog posts, forums and some helped, but I couldn’t find a single one with all the information, so since I already did the research, here is all the info to save you and everyone else the trouble. Suddenly, today, the debugger no longer works. Been debugging as usual, as recently as yesterday afternoon. Right? Sure, go do it and I’ll wait here while you figure it out. I've been using PhpStorm V9 EAP PS-141.332 since it was released on March 25th. Okay so you know what to do, right? Just install Xdebug in the server, set up your IDE and let the magic happen. You’ve got SSH access to the testing server.You need to check an issue in a PHP web application.Who in their right mind would want to develop using a remote server when you have Docker and all that other useful stuff? But, trust me, if you come into this unfortunate situation, you’ll be sending me all your love (or a beer, which is almost the same thing).