Is it possible to use xdebug on php built-in web server?

Question

I have a computer with apache2 and php7, I setup the php.ini to use xdebug and its ok, I can debug using an editor.

But I want to debug in another computer that has only php.

I started the server using: php -S localhost:8080

I tried to use the same php.ini, but it seems that php built-in web server can't understant the php.ini

I used the command: php -S localhost:8080 -c <<path to my php.ini>>

Here the phpinfo output from apache server:

and here the output from built-in web server:

Why not use Kint? It's better than xdebug, and doesn't require being installed into the php distribution. — mopsyd
– mopsyd, Commented Nov 26, 2017 at 3:14
@Danilo I'm not sure why report_zend_debug option should matter here -- AFAIK it has no relation to xdebug at all. if anything -- you should be looking at xdebug specific section. P.S. PHP's built-in web server works fine with xdebug -- otherwise it would not be possible to use it with Laravel/Symfony that use it (by default in manuals) for local dev. — LazyOne
– LazyOne, Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 14:52
@LazyOne, Thanks very much for your contribution, I don't know if the php.ini was loaded, because if I give a wrong path then the built-in web server runs, but without issuing errors, I tried in many ways, using full path: php -S localhost:8080 -c c:/php/php7/php.ini, I copied the php.ini to the current directory and called: php -S localhost:8080 -c php.ini — danilo
– danilo, Commented Nov 27, 2017 at 16:17
@LazyOne, It works now, yes, phpinfo() shows me that xdebug is active, my problem was on notepad++ plugin and not on built-in web server, thanks very much. — danilo
– danilo, Commented Nov 28, 2017 at 12:57

Alexar · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-05 10:45:28Z

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You need to pass php.ini before -S:

php -c /path/to/php.ini -S localhost:8080

answered Jan 5, 2019 at 10:45

Alexar

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