Waiting for connection(netbeans-xDebug)-php-XAMPP

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I tried to use netbeans to debug php program. And the xdebug is not working. What I have tried is Go to http://xdebug.org/wizard.php to analyse my phpinfo() . I downloaded php_xdebug-2.4.0rc2-5.6-vc11.dll and put it into C:\xampp\php\ext
I also modified php.ini(I am sure it is the correct file) like

zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.4.0rc2-5.6-vc11.dll"
xdebug.profiler_append = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable = 1
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 0
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"
xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_host = "127.0.0.1"
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
xdebug.remote_connect_back = 1

I also checked port 9000. When netbeans does not debug, I enter netstat -ano | find "9000" from cmd. It comes nothing. While I start debuging throuh netbeans, it comes as the picture below

So I thought that the netbeans can interactive with xDebug through port 9000 properly.

The problem might be ip address. So I try to use my ipv4 address(cmd-ipconfig) instead of 127.0.0.1,not working. And also "localhost", not working neither.

I realize that I am working on the university with vpn and maybe the problem comes from firegate or antivirus software. But I can not shut down any of them because I am not the system administrator.

How to deal with this situation? Any help?

I spent entire day for this.

can you be more specific as to what's actually wrong? Does the debugger work in Netbeans, when you start debugging? Is xdebug session present in phpinfo() output? And what happens if you request your debug URL with ?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=mysession parameter ? — Alexey
Hi xDebug is not working. When I set some breakpoint and click debug, it just shows me "Waiting for connection(netbeans-xDebug)". Also, the xDebug does not present in phpinfo(). — Lucky
For me, I didn't know that there were THREE locations where I had to specify port = 9000, and the mismatch was causing “Waiting For Connection (netbeans-xdebug)”: stackoverflow.com/a/41768167/470749 — Ryan

Lucky Lucky · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-09T08:46:54

Problem solved. I tried all but nothing works. Finally I unistalled XAMPP and followed the steps from http://xdebug.org/wizard.php. My final xDebug part in php.ini file is(only uncommented content)

[XDebug]

zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.4.0rc2-5.6-vc11.dll"

xdebug.remote_enable = 1

xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"

xdebug.remote_host = "127.0.0.1"

xdebug.remote_port=9000

I thought my problem casued by the configuration in apach server. Because the first time when I wanted to start Apach server from XAMPP control panel, it said error because of port block. So I changed the port number instead of using the default port. And after I reinstalled the XAMPP control panel, I restarted the computer and started Apach server immediatelty to make sure nothing else occupied the port. And all works great. So it might be the problem. Hope useful.

Waiting for connection(netbeans-xDebug)-php-XAMPP

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