VSCode with Xdebug doesn't stop at breakpoint

Question

I have a beginners question. I am fighting to get Xdebug to run for PHP in Visual Studio Code. I tried a lot, but nothing seems to work. VSCode doesn't stop at my breakpoints. Here is a list of things I already have tried or setup:

• I edited the PHP.ini from the Apache server in XAMPP. As you can see I added the dll already:

[XDebug]
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
xdebug.idekey="vscode"
xdebug.mode = debug
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
xdebug.remote_port = "8066"
zend_extension = C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-3.0.3-8.0-vs16-x86_64.dll

• Made sure the Apache server listens to the 8066 port.
• In Visual Studio Code I installed PHP debug and other PHP intellisence stuff
• the launch.json in VSCcode is as followed:

"name": "Listen for Xdebug",
"type": "php",
"request": "launch",
"port": 8066,
"runtimeExecutable": "C:/xampp/php/php.exe"

"name": "Launch currently open script",
"type": "php",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${file}",
"cwd": "${fileDirname}",
"port": 8066,
"runtimeExecutable": "C:/xampp/php/php.exe"

• I also set php.exe as a standard in VSCode:

What am I doing wrong? I bet it is something very stupid. I hope some of you guys have some advice.

Answer 1

I fixed my problem as followed:

1. I set the Apache server to another port that is not: 9000 or 9003

2. After reading the link i understood that a lot of settings where V2. So i changed the xdebug setting to only:

   xdebug.remote_autostart = yes
   xdebug.mode = debug
   zend_extension = C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-3.0.3-8.0-vs16-x86_64.dll
   

https://xdebug.org/docs/upgrade_guide

3. in visual studio code I changed the launch.json port to 9003 (which is the default port in Xdebug)

It worked perfectly! Thank you LazyOne!