Run Xdebug on laravel sail docker Windows PhpStorm

Question

So, after hours of Googling no right answer is found. Ive started the Laravel 8.x tutorial installation for Windows using Docker and Laravel's sail.

Now i want to use Xdebug and have absolutely no idea what to do.

in the root of the project there is a docker-compose.yml (this is the default)

# For more information: https://laravel.com/docs/sail
version: '3'
services:
    laravel.test:
        build:
            context: ./vendor/laravel/sail/runtimes/8.0
            dockerfile: Dockerfile
            args:
                WWWGROUP: '${WWWGROUP}'
        image: sail-8.0/app
        ports:
            - '${APP_PORT:-80}:80'
        environment:
            WWWUSER: '${WWWUSER}'
            LARAVEL_SAIL: 1
            PHP_IDE_CONFIG: 'serverName=localhost'
        volumes:
            - '.:/var/www/html'
        networks:
            - sail
        depends_on:
            - mysql
            - redis
            # - selenium
    # selenium:
    #     image: 'selenium/standalone-chrome'
    #     volumes:
    #         - '/dev/shm:/dev/shm'
    #     networks:
    #         - sail
    #     depends_on:
    #         - laravel.test
    mysql:
        image: 'mysql:8.0'
        ports:
            - '${DB_PORT}:3306'
        environment:
            MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}'
            MYSQL_DATABASE: '${DB_DATABASE}'
            MYSQL_USER: '${DB_USERNAME}'
            MYSQL_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}'
            MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 'yes'
        volumes:
            - 'sailmysql:/var/lib/mysql'
        networks:
            - sail
    redis:
        image: 'redis:alpine'
        ports:
            - '${REDIS_PORT}:6379'
        volumes:
            - 'sailredis:/data'
        networks:
            - sail
    # memcached:
    #     image: 'memcached:alpine'
    #     ports:
    #         - '11211:11211'
    #     networks:
    #         - sail
    mailhog:
        image: 'mailhog/mailhog:latest'
        ports:
            - 1025:1025
            - 8025:8025
        networks:
            - sail
networks:
    sail:
        driver: bridge
volumes:
    sailmysql:
        driver: local
    sailredis:
        driver: local

And in the vendor/laravel/sail/runtimes/8.0 folder there is a Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:20.04

LABEL maintainer="Taylor Otwell"

ARG WWWGROUP

WORKDIR /var/www/html

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV TZ=UTC

RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y gnupg gosu curl ca-certificates zip unzip git supervisor sqlite3 libcap2-bin \
    && mkdir -p ~/.gnupg \
    && echo "disable-ipv6" >> ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf \
    && apt-key adv --homedir ~/.gnupg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys E5267A6C \
    && apt-key adv --homedir ~/.gnupg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys C300EE8C \
    && echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ppa_ondrej_php.list \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y php8.0-cli php8.0-dev \
       php8.0-pgsql php8.0-sqlite3 php8.0-gd \
       php8.0-curl php8.0-memcached \
       php8.0-imap php8.0-mysql php8.0-mbstring \
       php8.0-xml php8.0-zip php8.0-bcmath php8.0-soap \
       php8.0-intl php8.0-readline \
       php8.0-msgpack php8.0-igbinary php8.0-ldap \
       php8.0-redis \
    && php -r "readfile('http://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php -- --install-dir=/usr/bin/ --filename=composer \
    && curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_15.x | bash - \
    && apt-get install -y nodejs \
    && apt-get -y autoremove \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*

RUN setcap "cap_net_bind_service=+ep" /usr/bin/php8.0

RUN groupadd --force -g $WWWGROUP sail
RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash --no-user-group -g $WWWGROUP -u 1337 sail

COPY start-container /usr/local/bin/start-container
COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf
COPY php.ini /etc/php/8.0/cli/conf.d/99-sail.ini

RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/start-container

EXPOSE 8000

ENTRYPOINT ["start-container"]

now what? I'm on a Windows system I want to connect it to PhpStorm

Answer 1

I had the same problem for VS Code on a Linux workstation.

Maybe my solution could work for you, too.

Apparently, XDebug is not installed at all with Laravel Sail. In order to include it, you have to modify the Dockerfile , edit docker-compose.yml and rebuild the containers.

Here is how I did.

1. I copied the Docker configuration Laravel Sail uses in a more convenient place:

cp -r vendor/laravel/sail/runtimes/8.0./resources/docker/

2. I changed the context and added a variable under args in the first lines of docker-compose.yml :

# For more information: https://laravel.com/docs/sail
version: '3'
services:
    laravel.test:
        build:
            context: ./resources/docker/8.0
            dockerfile: Dockerfile
            args:
                WWWGROUP: '${WWWGROUP}'
                XDEBUG: ${APP_DEBUG}

...

So the context points where I copied the original Docker configuration. I also decided to bind the new XDEBUG arg to the value of the APP_DEBUG variable inside the .env file, in order to switch off XDebug in a production environment.

3. Then, I changed the Dockerfile I copied before in order to include xdebug when building the containers. The script should also write the correct configuration options for Xdebug 3 inside php.ini :

FROM ubuntu:20.04

LABEL maintainer="Taylor Otwell"

ARG WWWGROUP
ARG XDEBUG

WORKDIR /var/www/html

ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV TZ=UTC

RUN ln -snf /usr/share/zoneinfo/$TZ /etc/localtime && echo $TZ > /etc/timezone

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y gnupg gosu curl ca-certificates zip unzip git supervisor sqlite3 libcap2-bin \
    && mkdir -p ~/.gnupg \
    && echo "disable-ipv6" >> ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf \
    && apt-key adv --homedir ~/.gnupg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys E5267A6C \
    && apt-key adv --homedir ~/.gnupg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys C300EE8C \
    && echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ppa_ondrej_php.list \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y php8.0-cli php8.0-dev \
       php8.0-pgsql php8.0-sqlite3 php8.0-gd \
       php8.0-curl php8.0-memcached \
       php8.0-imap php8.0-mysql php8.0-mbstring \
       php8.0-xml php8.0-zip php8.0-bcmath php8.0-soap \
       php8.0-intl php8.0-readline \
       php8.0-msgpack php8.0-igbinary php8.0-ldap \
       php8.0-redis

RUN if [ ${XDEBUG} ] ; then \
    apt-get install -y php-xdebug \
    && echo "[XDebug]" > /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini \
    && echo "zend_extension="$(find /usr/lib/php/20200930/ -name xdebug.so)" > /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini" \
    && echo "xdebug.mode = debug" >> /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini \
    && echo "xdebug.start_with_request = yes" >> /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini \
    && echo "xdebug.discover_client_host = true" >> /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini ;\
fi;

RUN php -r "readfile('http://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php -- --install-dir=/usr/bin/ --filename=composer \
    && curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_15.x | bash - \
    && apt-get install -y nodejs \
    && apt-get -y autoremove \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*


RUN setcap "cap_net_bind_service=+ep" /usr/bin/php8.0

RUN groupadd --force -g $WWWGROUP sail
RUN useradd -ms /bin/bash --no-user-group -g $WWWGROUP -u 1337 sail

COPY start-container /usr/local/bin/start-container
COPY supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf
COPY php.ini /etc/php/8.0/cli/conf.d/99-sail.ini
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/start-container

EXPOSE 8000

ENTRYPOINT ["start-container"]

4. After stopping, rebuilding and relaunching the containers:

$ ./vendor/bin/sail stop
$ ./vendor/bin/sail up --build -d

You can find out if XDebug is running:

$ ./vendor/bin/sail php -v
PHP 8.0.0 (cli) (built: Nov 27 2020 12:26:22) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.0.0-dev, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.0.0, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v3.0.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2020, by Derick Rethans

For VSCode only:

5. Inside Preferences -> Settings under Debug you should check "Debug: Allow breakpoints everywhere".

6. Change the default launch.json file:

{
  // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
  // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
  // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "Listen for XDebug",
      "type": "php",
      "request": "launch",
      "port": 9003,
      "pathMappings": {
          "/var/www/html" : "${workspaceFolder}"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Launch currently open script",
      "type": "php",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${file}",
      "cwd": "${fileDirname}",
      "port": 9000
    }
  ]
}

Answer 2

There is a discarded PR for optional Xdebug 3.0 support in laravel/sail (PHP 7.4 and PHP 8). Please follow the discussion .

Check the commit , what to change in Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml. Don't forget to set the variables in your.env

Answer 3

I got XDebug to work with a web request after some help from the posters above.

I have quite a bit of experience with PHPStorm and XDebug 2.x. I am new to docker so there may be better ways to fix this. I have not yet figured out how to run or debug tests that rely on the database connection from inside PHPStorm (right click on a test to debug). They run successfully with breakpoints if I am "listening" to sail test (which will run the tests correctly) but PHPStorm can't find the MySQL database when running tests and I also get this error: "Xdebug: [Step Debug] Could not connect to debugging client. Tried: host.docker.internal:9003"

Update 1/18/21 to fix local environment within PHPStorm so that it can find the database and the rest of the Docker network. Now I can successfully run tests and debug from within PHPStorm. With the current build of PHPStorm 2020.3.1 You need to add the network name where it asks for the network mode . I will be reporting this to them so it may get addressed soon.

Get your network name by running docker network ls . In this case it is myProjectName_sail.

NETWORK ID     NAME                             DRIVER    SCOPE
8e8635ce01a6   bridge                           bridge    local
401307dbfaad   host                             host      local
ad8020ad629e   myProjectName_sail               bridge    local
d85a9668cade   none                             null      local

Enter this in PHPStorm Preferences>PHP>CLI Interpreter>...

On to the fix for debugging web requests:

What I have:

• Laravel Sail version 8.0
• Xdebug version 3.0
• PHPStorm version 2020.3 The version of PHPStorm is important as it supports PHP8 and Xdedbug 3.

What I did:

• I installed vim in my docker container by adding this line to the Dockerfile: RUN apt-get -y install vim
• This lets me view/edit files easily by running docker exec -it mySite.test_1 vim /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini .
• In this case I still edited the Dockerfile to generate the php.ini

You need to get your /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini file to look like this (client_host was the key):

[XDebug]
xdebug.mode = debug
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
xdebug.client_host = host.docker.internal

I added this to the Dockerfile as recommended by @Enea74. I was having trouble getting the conditional to return TRUE so I hard coded TRUE here for now:

RUN if [ true ] ; then \
    apt-get install -y php-xdebug \
    && echo "[XDebug]" > /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini \
    && echo "zend_extension="$(find /usr/lib/php/20200930/ -name xdebug.so)" > /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini" \
    && echo "xdebug.mode = debug" >> /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini \
    && echo "xdebug.start_with_request = yes" >> /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini \
    && echo "xdebug.client_host = host.docker.internal" >> /etc/php/8.0/cli/php.ini ;\
fi;

• I built the Docker containers by running sail build --no-cache
• then sail up -d

sail php -v returns:

PHP 8.0.0 (cli) (built: Nov 27 2020 12:26:22) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.0.0-dev, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.0.0, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v3.0.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2020, by Derick Rethans

Now In PHPStorm do the following. I think that it discovered many of these settings on its own: I don't remember setting all of these values:

Hopefully this will help someone.

Answer 4

The underlying dockerfile can be found here .

In order to run xdebug you need to install the PHP extension. Personally I like to use docker-php-extension-installer to install them.

Add these lines after line 35:

RUN sudo apt-get install php-xdebug

Add these lines after line 35:

 RUN sudo apt-get install php-xdebug

After that you need to configure Xdebug, PhpStorm and your browser.

1. configure xdebug to connect to you host machine

xdebug.ini

 zend_extension=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20180731/xdebug.so xdebug.remote_host=host.docker.internal xdebug.remote_enable=1 xdebug.remote_autostart=1 xdebug.remote_port=9000 xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM

both theremote_port and the remote_host are very important. Make sure this port does not conflict with a service inside the container, in this case do not use 8000 as PHP already runs on this port.

2. configure PhpStorm

You need to create a server first under:

File > Settings > Languages & Frameworks > PHP > Servers

It is very important to correctly map the paths in this case: .:/var/www/html

Which means your project root directory on the left should map to /var/www/html

Now it is time to create a run config. You can do this in the top right corner of PhpStorm under "Add Configuration..."

Use the screenshot as a guide.

3. lastly start the debug session in the browser, easiest way is to use the chrome extension Xdebug helper . Change the IDE key as configured earlier under settings and left click the extension icon > debug to start debugging.

Also do the same inside PhpStorm in the right corner.

Answer 5

My contribution to @Enea74 and @smenzer great answers above:

I successfully configured Sail with xdebug working on VSCODE on linux mint.

But when I run some phpUnit or sail test, it was not working as expected and received this message

Xdebug: [Step Debug] Could not connect to debugging client. Tried: host.docker.internal:9000 (fallback through xdebug.client_host/xdebug.client_port):-(

After a long search, I figured out that need to add this line on the Dockerfile of Sail after the apt install commands:

RUN ip -4 route list match 0/0 | awk '{print $3 " host.docker.internal"}' >> /etc/hosts

Rebuild the containers with

sail down

sail up --build --force-recreate -d

And then the xdebug start to work with phpunit tests on shell along with normal browser navigation.

Note: if the command 'ip' is not working, add the package 'iproute2' on previous apt install commands.

Answer 6

I'm in the same situation as OP and didn't find a solution, but this is what I found:

If you've installed xdebug via command line recently, chances are you've installed Xdebug V3 which has different config options than Xdebug V2. It doesn't have remote_autostart or remote_enable options so setting those will have no effect.

You can read more about Xdebug 3 config options here: https://xdebug.org/docs/all_settings