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I had xdebug working with PhpStorm, now it is not. I ran brew doctor while trying to resolve problems around installing mcrypt, and unfortunately tried to follow brew doctor's instructions.

php -i from the command line shows me a lot of things about xdebug, some of which indicate it isn't set up right. Relevant (i think) output looks like:

xdebug

xdebug support => enabled
Version => 2.4.0
IDE Key => rgrossetest

Supported protocols => Revision
DBGp - Common DeBuGger Protocol => $Revision: 1.145 $

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
xdebug.auto_trace => Off => Off
xdebug.cli_color => 0 => 0
xdebug.collect_assignments => Off => Off
xdebug.collect_includes => On => On
xdebug.collect_params => 0 => 0
xdebug.collect_return => Off => Off
xdebug.collect_vars => Off => Off
xdebug.coverage_enable => On => On
xdebug.default_enable => On => On
xdebug.dump.COOKIE => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.ENV => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.FILES => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.GET => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.POST => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.REQUEST => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.SERVER => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.SESSION => no value => no value
xdebug.dump_globals => On => On
xdebug.dump_once => On => On
xdebug.dump_undefined => Off => Off
xdebug.extended_info => On => On
xdebug.file_link_format => no value => no value
xdebug.force_display_errors => Off => Off
xdebug.force_error_reporting => 0 => 0
xdebug.halt_level => 0 => 0
xdebug.idekey => no value => no value
xdebug.max_nesting_level => 256 => 256
xdebug.max_stack_frames => -1 => -1
xdebug.overload_var_dump => On => On
xdebug.profiler_aggregate => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_append => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_enable => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger_value => no value => no value
xdebug.profiler_output_dir => /var/tmp/ => /var/tmp/
xdebug.profiler_output_name => cachegrind.out.%p => cachegrind.out.%p
xdebug.remote_addr_header => no value => no value
xdebug.remote_autostart => Off => Off
xdebug.remote_connect_back => Off => Off
xdebug.remote_cookie_expire_time => 3600 => 3600
xdebug.remote_enable => Off => Off
xdebug.remote_handler => dbgp => dbgp
xdebug.remote_host => localhost => localhost
xdebug.remote_log => no value => no value
xdebug.remote_mode => req => req
xdebug.remote_port => 9000 => 9000
xdebug.scream => Off => Off
xdebug.show_error_trace => Off => Off
xdebug.show_exception_trace => Off => Off
xdebug.show_local_vars => Off => Off
xdebug.show_mem_delta => Off => Off
xdebug.trace_enable_trigger => Off => Off
xdebug.trace_enable_trigger_value => no value => no value
xdebug.trace_format => 0 => 0
xdebug.trace_options => 0 => 0
xdebug.trace_output_dir => /var/tmp/ => /var/tmp/
xdebug.trace_output_name => trace.%c => trace.%c
xdebug.var_display_max_children => 128 => 128
xdebug.var_display_max_data => 512 => 512
xdebug.var_display_max_depth => 3 => 3

If I put

phpinfo();
die();

at the top of the site index.php I don't see any of that. The php versions are slightly off as well-- though dev in the cage next to me says that doesn't matter. All I see in that output that mentions xdebug is under "PHP Variables":

_REQUEST["XDEBUG_SESSION"]  phpStorm

If I go into my php.ini (the one reflected in my command line output) I had a line:

zend_extension = xdebug.so

which I first changed to 

zend_extension = /usr/local/Cellar/php55/5.5.34/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/xdebug.so

after creating dirs /extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/ in order to put xdebug.so in there so it would stop complaining. That didn't work, but commenting it out did. With that line uncommented command php -v says:

PHP Warning:  Module 'xdebug' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
Warning: Module 'xdebug' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.5.34 (cli) (built: Mar 31 2016 14:37:10) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2016, by Derick Rethans

and if I comment that line out then no errors. No debugging either. I can turn it on in Chrome, start listening in phpStorm, but no response. Now I can see that first of all the IDE Key looks wrong in the command line php -i output:

IDE Key => rgrossetest

(though I can also later see that it doesn't seem defined at all? wtf?):

xdebug.idekey => no value => no value

So, where is this module? What module is being loaded/not being loaded? I don't know who is controlling what here.

Muchas gracias for any insight, R

======edit: adding phpinfo() header ======= php -i PHP Warning: Module 'xdebug' already loaded in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Module 'xdebug' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.5.34

System => Darwin rgrovembpxx.cnet.cnwk 14.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.5.0: Mon Jan 11 18:48:35 PST 2016; root:xnu-2782.50.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Build Date => Mar 31 2016 14:36:26
Configure Command =>  './configure'  '--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/php55/5.5.34' '--localstatedir=/usr/local/var' '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/php/5.5' '--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php/5.5' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/etc/php/5.5/conf.d' '--mandir=/usr/local/Cellar/php55/5.5.34/share/man' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dba' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-mbregex' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-soap' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-wddx' '--enable-zip' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/opt/freetype' '--with-gd' '--with-gettext=/usr/local/opt/gettext' '--with-iconv-dir=/usr' '--with-icu-dir=/usr/local/opt/icu4c' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/opt/jpeg' '--with-kerberos=/usr' '--with-libedit' '--with-mhash' '--with-ndbm=/usr' '--with-pdo-odbc=unixODBC,/usr/local/opt/unixodbc' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local/opt/libpng' '--with-unixODBC=/usr/local/opt/unixodbc' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-zlib=/usr' '--with-readline=/usr/local/opt/readline' '--without-gmp' '--without-snmp' '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--libexecdir=/usr/local/Cellar/php55/5.5.34/libexec' '--with-bz2=/usr' '--disable-debug' '--with-openssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl' '--enable-fpm' '--with-fpm-user=_www' '--with-fpm-group=_www' '--with-curl' '--with-xsl=/usr' '--with-ldap' '--with-ldap-sasl=/usr' '--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock' '--with-mysqli=mysqlnd' '--with-mysql=mysqlnd' '--with-pdo-mysql=mysqlnd' '--disable-opcache' '--enable-pcntl' '--without-pear' '--enable-dtrace' '--enable-zend-signals'
Server API => Command Line Interface
Virtual Directory Support => disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /usr/local/etc/php/5.5
Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/php.ini
Scan this dir for additional .ini files => /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/conf.d
Additional .ini files parsed => /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/conf.d/ext-mcrypt.ini,
/usr/local/etc/php/5.5/conf.d/ext-xdebug.ini

PHP API => 20121113
PHP Extension => 20121212
Zend Extension => 220121212
Zend Extension Build => API220121212,NTS
PHP Extension Build => API20121212,NTS
Debug Build => no
Thread Safety => disabled
Zend Signal Handling => enabled
Zend Memory Manager => enabled
Zend Multibyte Support => provided by mbstring
IPv6 Support => enabled
DTrace Support => enabled

Registered PHP Streams => https, ftps, compress.zlib, compress.bzip2, php, file, glob, data, http, ftp, phar, zip
Registered Stream Socket Transports => tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, tls
Registered Stream Filters => zlib.*, bzip2.*, convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk, mcrypt.*, mdecrypt.*

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2016, by Derick Rethans

=====MORE php -i output, now without the "already loaded" errors: =======

xdebug

xdebug support => enabled
Version => 2.4.0
IDE Key => phpStorm

Supported protocols => Revision
DBGp - Common DeBuGger Protocol => $Revision: 1.145 $

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
xdebug.auto_trace => Off => Off
xdebug.cli_color => 1 => 1
xdebug.collect_assignments => Off => Off
xdebug.collect_includes => On => On
xdebug.collect_params => 0 => 0
xdebug.collect_return => Off => Off
xdebug.collect_vars => Off => Off
xdebug.coverage_enable => On => On
xdebug.default_enable => On => On
xdebug.dump.COOKIE => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.ENV => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.FILES => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.GET => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.POST => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.REQUEST => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.SERVER => no value => no value
xdebug.dump.SESSION => no value => no value
xdebug.dump_globals => On => On
xdebug.dump_once => On => On
xdebug.dump_undefined => Off => Off
xdebug.extended_info => On => On
xdebug.file_link_format => no value => no value
xdebug.force_display_errors => Off => Off
xdebug.force_error_reporting => 0 => 0
xdebug.halt_level => 0 => 0
xdebug.idekey => phpStorm => phpStorm
xdebug.max_nesting_level => 256 => 256
xdebug.max_stack_frames => -1 => -1
xdebug.overload_var_dump => On => On
xdebug.profiler_aggregate => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_append => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_enable => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger => Off => Off
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger_value => no value => no value
xdebug.profiler_output_dir => /var/tmp/ => /var/tmp/
xdebug.profiler_output_name => cachegrind.out.%p => cachegrind.out.%p
xdebug.remote_addr_header => no value => no value
xdebug.remote_autostart => On => On
xdebug.remote_connect_back => On => On
xdebug.remote_cookie_expire_time => 3600 => 3600
xdebug.remote_enable => On => On
xdebug.remote_handler => dbgp => dbgp
xdebug.remote_host => 127.0.0.1 => 127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_log => no value => no value
xdebug.remote_mode => req => req
xdebug.remote_port => 9000 => 9000
xdebug.scream => Off => Off
xdebug.show_error_trace => Off => Off
xdebug.show_exception_trace => Off => Off
xdebug.show_local_vars => On => On
xdebug.show_mem_delta => Off => Off
xdebug.trace_enable_trigger => Off => Off
xdebug.trace_enable_trigger_value => no value => no value
xdebug.trace_format => 0 => 0
xdebug.trace_options => 0 => 0
xdebug.trace_output_dir => /var/tmp/ => /var/tmp/
xdebug.trace_output_name => trace.%c => trace.%c
xdebug.var_display_max_children => 128 => 128
xdebug.var_display_max_data => 512 => 512
xdebug.var_display_max_depth => 3 => 3
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  • So far I see nothing to do with actual PhpStorm ... except the fact that you simply unable to enable/configure xdebug in your php.ini (for whatever reason). To start: 1) your OS 2) provide header of phpinfo() out put 3) what php.ini you are editing and what xdebug settings it has Commented Apr 14, 2016 at 17:30
  • My OS is OS X Yosemite, 10.10.5 Commented Apr 14, 2016 at 17:39
  • Are you running your own install of apache by any chance ? (as in not the brain dead version that ships with osx ? Commented Apr 14, 2016 at 17:50
  • Thanks-- I am editing that php.ini, and have got that piece happening now, I believe: I needed to edit the php.ini file like so: zend_extension="/usr/local/opt/php55-xdebug/xdebug.so" and now the Php IDE key has changed. LazyOne, I added the phpinfo() output above. Again, this is actually output from php -i from the command line-- putting phpinfo() into my index.php still gives me no xdebug section. Commented Apr 14, 2016 at 17:51
  • It is my own apache install, yes, not the stock osx. Commented Apr 14, 2016 at 17:51

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Got this working by making sure I was editing the php.ini used by apache in this instance.

1) Check the output (thanks LazyOne!) of phpinfo() from apache. In this case I'm seeing /etc -- so check your default php.ini, which may not be the same you see from command line.

2) Add xdebug config. It will look something like:

zend_extension="/usr/local/opt/php55-xdebug/xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_host= "127.0.0.1"
xdebug.remote_enable=true
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
xdebug.idekey = "phpStorm"
xdebug.remote_connect_back = 1
xdebug.cli_color=1
xdebug.show_local_vars=1

3) Restart apache. You should be good.

Thanks for all the help.

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