Installing xdebug on ubuntu 14.04 not creating xdebug.ini file

Question

I've been trying to install xdebug for php5-fpm on my vagrant box with sudo apt-get php5-xdebug However, I was not able to find any xdebug.ini file created in /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d or /etc/php5/mods-available for that matter and every google search suggests there should be the xdebug.ini files being created there. Any suggestions on where this went wrong?

Answer 1

UPDATE:

It turned out that I tried installing php5-xdebug before and manually removed the init file myself. When using apt-get remove php5-xdebug , it only removes the package but not the configuration files, so the next apt-get install php5-xdebug will assume the .ini files are already there and won't try to create new ones. The issue is solved with --purge parameters in apt-get remove. sudo apt-get --purge remove php5-xdebug and then install the package again.