How to debug with PHPStorm and PHP builtin server

I was playing with Symfony recently, and I needed to setup debug in PHPStorm using the PHP internal web server.

I’ve setup xdebug with PHPStorm in multiple environments, and each time I find a different glitch. Lucky me 🙂

So, I will assume that you have PHP, xdebug, PHPStorm installed.

These are the steps:

1. Edit the xdebug configuration file (in Ubuntu you can find it in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini) and add the following lines:
   xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
2. Start the server with php bin/console server:run
3. In PHPStorm, click the phone handle icon.
4. Set a breakpoint and load your application in the browser.

You’re done! Can you believe it?

This time the difference was that remote_autostart flag!

Until for next xdebug setup tip, bye 😉