I have tried to install xdebug on my ubuntu server machine and it's not working. The reason I know it's not working is that the output of var_dump is not colorized, nor can I connect to it using netbeans.
I followed the tailored instructions on how to install xdebug on
http://xdebug.org/wizard.php
Here is what the output of my phpinfo analysis was:
Xdebug installed: no
Server API: Apache 2.0 Handler
Windows: no
Zend Server: no
PHP Version: 5.3.6-13
Zend API nr: 220090626
PHP API nr: 20090626
Debug Build: no
Thread Safe Build: no
Configuration File Path: /etc/php5/apache2
Configuration File: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Extensions directory: /usr/lib/php5/20090626
The name of the file that wizard recommended was xdebug-2.1.4.tgz
The output of phpize was
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20090626
Zend Module Api No: 20090626
Zend Extension Api No: 220090626
My phpinfo now does show xdebug installed, here is how it looks like:
Here is what I have in my php.ini
zend_extension = /usr/lib/php5/20090626/xdebug.so
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "/var/log/apache2/xdebug"
xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%p"
xdebug.profiler_enable =1
xdebug.profiler_append=1
xdebug.extended_info=1
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler="dbgp"
xdebug.remote_mode=req
xdebug.remote_host=192.168.2.13
xdebug.remote_port=9000
;xdebug.idekey=xdebug
xdebug.idekey=netbeans-xdebug
xdebug.remote_connect_back=1
xdebug.remote_log="/var/log/apache2/xdebug_remote.log"
xdebug.show_exception_trace=0
xdebug.show_local_vars=9
xdebug.show_mem_delta=0
The output of lsb_release -a on my computer is
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
PHP version shown on phpinfo is 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.6