Xdebug - C9 SDK local installation

[postadelmaga]

I have installed C9 sdk on my LAMP but I cannot manage to make xdebug work with it. (I am trying to debug a php web app.)

• C9 is working fine
• debug and xdebug plugin is present in c9 (default)
• debug package is installed with npm
• Xdebug is installed and configured as follow (it actually works fine with phpstorm)

Here Xdebug Config:

zend_extension=xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port=9000
#xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
idekey=cloud9ide 
remote_mode=req

• is it required anything in order to make C9 start to listen to xdebug ?
• is it required that in C9 I run the project ? ( my LAMP server is always up so why should I ? and how to configure the runnner so ?)
  • Should I install some nodejs dependency ?

[nightwing]

You need a runner for the debugger to be activated, but you can set command to cat, or tail a log file if you prefer to not run the project from cloud9.

[postadelmaga]

We have indeed solved creating a runner with cat.

Anyway we noted that in order to work you also have to enable xdebug for php cli, maybe you can write this note some where in the xdebug plugin readme

In case somebody need this runner works:

{
    "cmd": [ "cat"  ],
    "selector": "^.*\\.(php|phar)$",
    "info": "Enabling xdebug",
    "working_dir": "$project_path",
    "debugger": "xdebug",
    "debugport": 9000,
    "env": {
        "XDEBUG_CONFIG": "\"idekey=cloud9ide remote_host=localhost remote_port=9000 remote_mode=req\""
    }
}

[postadelmaga]

Is the above runner correct ? Sometime it Xdebug just stop to work without any reason .... anything I can try ?