I do the following in my environment so it doesn't mistakenly use the apache instance that came with OS X

Sudo port install php55 +apache2+fastcgi fcgi php55-cgi If you're using, for example, php 5.4, change the '55' to '54'. Install cgi for your version of php. I'm using php 5.5. I'm using Macports on my Mac, and here is what I needed to do in order to get xdebug working for standalone scripts. It would jump to the browser, which would give a Bad Gateway error, and the IDE would give me a popup complaining that php-cgi could not be found.

Once I got it working in the browser, it would no longer debug a script within the IDE. This turned out not to be a PhpStorm issue (see content/phpstorm-and-xdebug-browser-missing-instruction), but the time and effort it took to resolve revealed again that, often, the PhpStorm help file is all but helpful.īefore I succeeded in getting it working with xdebug in the browser, it was working with xdebug within the IDE, debugging a standalone script. The latest problem I had was getting it to work with xdebug in the browser (again) after upgrading to version 8. I love PhpStorm, but even though I've been using it forever, much of it remains a mystery.

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