I have a working XAMPP PHP server, but cannot seem to get the Xdebug .dll plugin to be recognized. I have added the line:

zend_extension="php_xdebug-2.0.2-5.3.0.dll"

to the php.ini file, and have tried giving it the fully qualified path, but still can't get Xdebug to show up in phpinfo().

Does anyone have experience w/ XAMPP, or do you have another option for setting up a PHP server?

4/21/2010 10:10:15 AM

which OS?

you may need to use zend_extension or zend_extension_ts depending

also, make sure you get the right build of xdebug - V6/V9, 32/64 bit, threadsafe/nonthreadsafe, php 5.2/5.3


[Edited on April 21, 2010 at 10:20 AM. Reason : and in your path to the dll, are you using / or \]



[Edited on April 21, 2010 at 10:22 AM. Reason : and are you restarting apache?]

4/21/2010 10:17:27 AM

I'm on Windows Vista, have tried both zend_extension and zend_extension_ts, i've tried full path to xdebug.dll, have tried both thread-safe and nts version of xdebug, restarted the server b/t each try, and have tried using both / and \.

In the meantime, I HAVE gotten everything to work w/ Ubuntu, but still need to test w/ Win.

Thx for the help!

[Edited on April 21, 2010 at 11:19 AM. Reason : ts]

4/21/2010 11:18:59 AM

vista 64 bit?

are you using php 5.3?

are you using the xdebug dll that comes with xampp or did you download it from http://xdebug.org/

getting xdebug to work on vista is known to be problematic. if you upgrade everything to the latest versions though, that supposedly increases your chances of success

4/21/2010 12:08:44 PM

Using php5 on 32-bit Vista. I uncommented out

zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"

in the php.ini file (commented by default), and removed the zend_extension that I manually entered pointing to the Xdebug that I downloaded external from xampp. Everythign seems to work now, but I have seen issues on the internet that this causes Apache to become unstable.

so far so good!

4/21/2010 12:37:35 PM