Problem with getting Remote Debugging in VS Code to uzerp in VirtualBox VM

[chrisringrow]

I have uzerp running on Ubuntu 18.04.5 server in a Virtualbox VM.
I can run uzerp simply by entering the url of the VM from the browser on my Windows 10 laptop
I can also connect to it via Visual Studio code via SSH and modify the files.
However I cannot get remote debugging within Visual Studio working.
I would appreciate some help and I suspect a Zoom session will be necessary.
Chris Ringrow

[steveblamey]

@chrisringrow this SO post should help you get going https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57964886/vscode-remote-debugging-with-xdebug-when-using-ssh-connection-to-edit-code

You do need PHP Xdebug installed in your VM.

[chrisringrow]

Tried that and it made no difference as far as I could tell.
I have Xdebug enabled but no luck debugging, single stepping etc.

[steveblamey]

Please post your Xdebug config and vscode JSON config.

[chrisringrow]

My xdebug settings in php.ini are:

xdebug.mode = debug
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
xdebug.remote_connect_back =1         ; Added later to try to get debug working

;; Added from Steve blamey
xdebug.remote_handler = dbgp
xdebug.remote_log = "/tmp/xdebug/log"
xdebug.profiler.enable =1
xdebug.remote_port=9003
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
xdebug.remote_host = 127.0.0.1

My vscode launch.json is:

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
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    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Listen for Xdebug",
            "type": "php",
            "request": "launch",
            "port": 9003
        },
        {
            "name": "Launch currently open script",
            "type": "php",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${file}",
            "cwd": "${fileDirname}",
            "port": 0,
            "runtimeArgs": [
                "-dxdebug.start_with_request=yes"
            ],
            "env": {
                "XDEBUG_MODE": "debug,develop",
                "XDEBUG_CONFIG": "client_port=${port}"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "Launch Built-in web server",
            "type": "php",
            "request": "launch",
            "runtimeArgs": [
                "-dxdebug.mode=debug",
                "-dxdebug.start_with_request=yes",
                "-S",
                "localhost:0"
            ],
            "program": "",
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "port": 9003,
            "serverReadyAction": {
                "pattern": "Development Server \\(http://localhost:([0-9]+)\\) started",
                "uriFormat": "http://localhost:%s",
                "action": "openExternally"
            }
        }
    ]
}

[steveblamey]

On Ubuntu 18.04 Xdebug is version 2, but you have a mixture of V2 and V3 syntax in your config. Try this:

xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_autostart = 1
xdebug.remote_port = 9003
xdebug.remote_host = 192.168.5.34

Adjust the remote_host IP address to the address of your server.

For the launch.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
      {
        "name": "Listen for XDebug",
        "type": "php",
        "request": "launch",
        "hostname": "192.168.5.34",
        "port": 9003,
        "pathMappings": {
          "/var/www/uzerp": "${workspaceFolder}/",
        }
      }
    ]
  }

Adjust the hostname IP address to the address of your server.