How to enable XDebug in Apache but not in CLI?

Question

I want to enable the XDebug module in PHP as run by Apache, but not for the CLI php command. I'm on Mac and I have Apache (httpd) and PHP 7.3 installed with Homebrew.

PHP runs much slower with XDebug enabled, even when I'm not debugging a given php command.

Answer 1

There are separate php.ini for CLI and Apache. In /etc/php/7.3/ there is an apache2 and cli directory. For enabling Xdebug in 'apache2/php.ini' add these lines:

xdebug.remote_autostart=1  
xdebug.remote_enable=1

And for Xdebug's profiler:

xdebug.profiler_enable=1