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How to debug connections from virtual machine

Thanks for the commenters: I updated Xdebug to 3rd version and now it's working with VM connections too.

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edited Nov 6, 2021, at 1:51

asked Nov 3, 2021, at 9:18

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qloq

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In PHP, it's the debugger that initiates a connection to the IDE, not the other way around. You need to set debug.remote_host to an IP/hostname the virtual machine can use to connect to the host. For VMware, usually, it's an IP of the VMnet* adapter your VM is using. –

Eugene Morozov

Nov 3, 2021 at 12:16

@Eugene Morozov, Please look at the updated part of the question, maybe I have misunderstood which IP to use – 

qloq

Nov 3, 2021 at 19:59

Uh-oh. I think I've gotten the setup wrong. So, your host is Ubuntu, and the guest is Windows? And the webserver is on the host, while PhpStorm is in the VM? Usually, it's the other way around. Okay then. By default, guests in VMware are using NAT networking, which means that you cannot connect to them directly. You need to create a host-only network for the VM and then use the guest IP assigned by this network as remote_host instead. You can use telnet IP 9003 on the host while Listening for PHP debug connections is enabled in PhpStorm to find out whether the IP is correct or not –

Eugene Morozov

Nov 3, 2021 at 23:10

No) Everything development-related is running on Ubuntu-host - Nginx, PHP, debug, PHPStorm. I just need to send HTTP requests to my web app from Windows VM. –

qloq

Nov 4, 2021 at 1:55

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Please upgrade to Xdebug 3 too, and see what xdebug_info() tells you in a request that you're trying to debug. Xdebug 2 is no longer supported. –

Derick

Nov 4, 2021 at 9:42