Phpstorm does not see xdebug but it is installed - xdebug

Question

PhpStorm cannot see xdebug but it is installed. In my browser xdebug works fine. Where is the problem?
The error:
Connection with 'xdebug' was not established. Validate installation.
php.ini
[xdebug]
xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM
zend_extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/xdebug.so"
xdebug.default_enable=1
xdebug.coverage_enable=1
xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "/tmp"
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
phpinfo in phpstorm:
PHP version: 5.4.10
Loaded extensions: bcmath, bz2, calendar, Core, ctype, curl, date, dom, ereg, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, iconv, imap, json, ldap, libxml, mbstring, mcrypt, mysql, mysqli, openssl, pcre, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, Phar, posix, Reflection, session, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, SPL, sqlite3, standard, tokenizer, XCache, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, yaz, zip, zlib

Answer 1

First, are you using MAMP (free) or MAMP Pro?
Turns out there is a difference between the php.ini file you edit from MAMP and the php.ini file that PhpStorm uses in the interpreter.
The MAMP Pro php.ini file resides in /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf/php.ini and doesn't have a PHP installation (which PhpStorm needs when setting the interpreter). If you run phpinfo(); this is the file you will see data from.
When you set PhpStorm to the necessary location here /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.x/bin it looks at the php.ini file there, not the one that MAMP Pro uses (above). So if you want PhpStorm to see the debugger, you need to add the code to that php.ini file.
For help setting up the interpreter for MAMP and PhpStorm refer to the documentation here
HELPFUL HINT: When checking to see if xdebug is installed make sure to run the --version command in terminal from the MAMP php location. Otherwise you'll end up seeing the default OSX PHP info which wouldn't have xdebug installed by default.
Example: run this in the PhpStorm terminal to see if it works /Applications/Mamp/bin/php/php5.4.4/bin/php --version

Answer 2

MAMP using different php.ini if you run it from terminal, try this code to find the php.ini
php -i | grep php.ini
After that add the code for activate the xDebug
[xdebug]
zend_extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_enable=true
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.profiler_output_dir="/Applications/MAMP/tmp/xdebug"
xdebug.max_nesting_level=1000
If this work, please consider accept the answer for the benefit the others.

Answer 3

This is because Mac OS X has php installed by default. There are two ini files for MAMP PRO.
PhpStorm will run the default php which you do not add the xdebug function to it.
Read this post for the solution
http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5466653
Pay attention to the STEP 5
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okay, if it do not work, I thought u may not pay enough attention to the article, It do helpful and explain the reason, read i again ?

Answer 4

I had similar problem.
I did:
Installed xdebug by following the steps here.
Found out which version of PHP does my PHPStorm use.
Created a new entry in the corresponding php.ini file of the /path/to/xdebug/modules/xdebug.so.
and I was able to solve my problem. xdebug is working now.

Answer 5

I had a similar issue in that it worked then it did not.
In my case, the cause turned out to be an miss placed .htaccess file in the root of the project.
The .htaccess file (repeated below) was there from a previous set of testing and was intended to stop XDebug from working. It sure did.
php_value xdebug.remote_autostart 0
php_value xdebug.remote_enable 0
php_value xdebug.profiler_enable 0
I just renamed the file and like magic, all was good.