php laravel vagrant debug

Edited last year by Lewis
PHPStorm debugging is amazing
I recently installed Homestead for my development environment and discovered Xdebug needed some additional settings before it would work. Here's a step-by-step process that I used to get PHPStorm + Homestead + Xdebug working in harmony.

I'm going to assume you have installed PHPStorm and Homestead.

Configure Xdebug

Navigate to Tools>Vagrat>Up
Navigate to Tools>Start SSH Session and choose your vagrant host (PHPStorm automatically adds this)
In the terminal, sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini
Paste the following into the file:
zend_extension=xdebug.so

xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_connect_back = 1
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.scream=0 
xdebug.cli_color=1
xdebug.show_local_vars=1
To close and save the file, on Windows I do: Ctrl+x followed by y for yes and enter.
In the terminal, sudo service php5-fpm restart