I appreciate the question that Mark asked below, and I have a somewhat related
question:
Is it possible to run Wamp Server and NetBeans on a Win 10 PC and have NetBeans
debugging a PHP 7.4 app on a remote server?
Currently I am running all of this on a win 10 pc local host using Wamp Server
and NetBeans.
TIA,
Mel Stanley
From: Mark Rogers <m...@more-solutions.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 9:23 AM
To: users@netbeans.apache.org
Subject: [PHP] Debugging remote PHP website
I'm new to Netbeans, but have succeeded in getting it up and running talking to
a webserver on localhost (PHP 8.2, IIS, XDebug 3.2, NB17).
I'm now trying to achieve the same feat on a remote server (Ubuntu 22.04,
Apache, PHP 8.1).
As I'm accessing it remotely I have configured a connection over SFTP to the
main site code, however the site also uses code in shared libraries outside
that folder, and I cannot see how to add them to my project, either for editing
or for debugging.
Specifically, on my remote server I have something like:
/var/www/libs/a
/var/www/otherlibs/b
/var/www/sites/mysite/lib
/var/www/sites/mysite/htdocs
I have NB configured with /var/www/sites/mysite as the project source folder
(web root = htdocs). But I can't see how to add /var/www/libs/a, etc, to the
include path.
Also maybe relevant: the site has PHP auto_prepend_file pointing
to/var/www/libs/a/start.inc.php
If I try to debug a file inside mysite/htdocs, it seems to step into it OK and
the run/step buttons work, but they don't show any code, either as it steps
through the start.inc.php code, or even when it reaches the code in htdocs (eg
if I put a breakpoint in).
So how (a) do I tell Netbeans how to access those remote folders, and (b) step
through them, if sorting out (a) doesn't solve that anyway.
Aside: As it happens I reach this server is over a VPN and am able to map
/var/www to a network drive. But that didn't work either - I'm guessing because
the mapped drive paths look very different from what the server sees?
--
Mark Rogers
