waiting for connection (netbeans-xdebug) gets stuck

Question

I am using windows 8, Netbeans 8.2, php 5.6, Apache and mysql. I installed them manually and did not use all-in-one package like WAMP.

When I click on debugging icon (Ctrl+F5) it gets stuck on "waiting for connection (netbeans-xdebug)" while shows the page completely without stopping at the break points.

I reviewed all the possible solutions but none of them worked for me. Such as:

1. Changing the remote_host from "localhost" to 127.0.0.1 or even to the ip address of my machine
2. Changing the port from 9000 to different ports. Also checking the "Session-ID = netbeans-xdebug"
3. Setting the default "web browser" on Netbeans
4. Checking https://xdebug.org/wizard.php and following the instruction
5. Setting the date.zone in php.ini
6. Checking the firewall (as far as I could find my firewall does not block the connection)
7. Restarting httpd.exe (Apache) and netbeans and browser

Here are some info which gained from my system:

From https://xdebug.org/wizard.php :

Tailored Installation Instructions

Summary

Xdebug installed: 2.5.0rc1
Server API: Apache 2.0 Handler
Windows: yes - Compiler: MS VC11 - Architecture: x64
Zend Server: no
PHP Version: 5.6.27
Zend API nr: 220131226
PHP API nr: 20131226
?Debug Build: no
Thread Safe Build: yes
Configuration File Path: C:\\Windows
Configuration File: C:\\php\\php.ini
Extensions directory: ext
You're already running the latest Xdebug version

From php -m command:

[PHP modules]
bcmath
calendar
.
.
. (I deleted them intentionally)
[Zend modules]
Xdebug

From netstat | findstr 9000

TCP 127.0.0.1:9000 mycomputername:62936 CLOSE_WAIT
TCP 127.0.0.1:62936 mycomputername:9000 FIN_WAIT_2
TCP [::1]:9000 mycomputername:62935 CLOSE_WAIT
TCP [::1}:62935 mycomputername::9000 FIN_WAIT_2

Last but not least in php.ini there was no [Xdebug] section!! there was some lines but as a separated section like some people said there was nothing so at the end of file I added these lines:

[xdebug]
zend_extension = php_xdebug-2.5.0rc1-5.6-vc11-x86_64.dll
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"
xdebug.remote_enable = on
xdebug.remote_host = "localhost"
xdebug.remote_port = 9000

I appreciate any suggestion.

Answer 1

Do not use xdebug 2.5 RC on Windows -- it has issues (does not work -- regardless what IDE is used, be it NetBeans or PhpStorm).

Use stable xdebug 2.4.1 for now.

• https://bugs.xdebug.org/view.php?id=1361
• https://bugs.xdebug.org/view.php?id=1366

Answer 2

[xdebug]

xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1

istead of

[xdebug]

xdebug.remote_host = "localhost"

Answer 3

I tried a lot of different things as well. Not sure if any of the suggestions I found on the web helped. My final change that actually got it working was to switch the project url from http to https (project - properties - run configuration - project url).