• Windows host
• Ubuntu\Linux remote virtual server (VMWare)
• PHPStorm

• sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug

Find your php configuration file or your Xdebug configuration file.
Default location is in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
To find the config files :

• find / -name 'php.ini' 2> /dev/null
• find / -name 'xdebug.ini' 2> /dev/null

Sometimes there are .ini files in /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/
These are more important and you would want to modify these.
In my case they look like 20-xdebug.ini and 20-php.ini
If you have these files follow Case II.

Add the following lines to the end of the php.ini file

• [XDebug]
• zend_extension=XDEBUG_LIBRARY_PATH
• xdebug.default_enable = 1
• xdebug.idekey = "PHPSTORM"
• xdebug.remote_enable = 1
• xdebug.remote_autostart = 0
• xdebug.remote_port = 9000
• xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
• xdebug.remote_log="/var/log/xdebug/xdebug.log"
• xdebug.remote_host=WINDOWS_LOCAL_IP

Replace XDEBUG_LIBRARY_PATH with path found by find / -name 'xdebug.so' 2> /dev/null
Replace WINDOWS_LOCAL_IP with your windows local ip (cmd ipconfig).

Only follow this path if you have a diffrent xdebug.ini file
Open your xdebug.ini file and add :

• zend_extension=XDEBUG_LIBRARY_PATH
• xdebug.default_enable = 1
• xdebug.idekey = "PHPSTORM"
• xdebug.remote_enable = 1
• xdebug.remote_autostart = 0
• xdebug.remote_port = 9000
• xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
• xdebug.remote_log="/var/log/xdebug/xdebug.log"
• xdebug.remote_host=WINDOWS_LOCAL_IP

Replace XDEBUG_LIBRARY_PATH with path found by find / -name 'xdebug.so' 2> /dev/null
Replace WINDOWS_LOCAL_IP with your windows local ip (cmd ipconfig).

• sudo service apache2 restart

• Open up your PHPStorm project
• Install Google Chrome extension
• Activate debug session from extension
• Activate Start Listening for PHP Debug Connections from the Run menu
• Set a breakpoint
• Navigate to the respective page
• The debugger should pop in

If your local ip changes, you'll have to set it again in the config file.