Error phpstorm+Xdebug not working what could be wrong?

Question

PHP

The following error Cannot accept external Xdebug connection Cannot evaluate expression 'isset($_SERVER['PHP_IDE_CONFIG'])'
There are several different instructions on the Internet, but it still doesn't work.
A bunch of openserver + phpstorm + xdebug.
Xdebug is running and phpinfo() gives full information about it, everything seems to be ok. But when I try to debug, I get this error. I so understand it is necessary to set what that server global variable. And in Google, I found several English-language answers to a similar question, but I still didn’t understand how to ask it and where to insert the code that is given there. (I'm not a programmer myself, just starting to learn).
For example, they write that you need to add 2 lines:
export PHP_IDE_CONFIG="serverName={SERVER NAME IN PHP STORM}"
export XDEBUG_CONFIG="remote_host={YOUR_IP} idekey=PHPSTORM"
Tried to insert into any configuration files like php.ini nothing changes.
But I still don’t understand where to add it, to some kind of web server configuration file? or where? Tell me plz. Thank you very much in advance!

Answer 1

Faced the same problem. Previously, everything worked, but after updating the version of Open Server it stopped, although all configs were corrected in the same way.
I found the answer for myself here: https://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5478634 in the last message. The installation in
helped me , in the configs it is now explicitly registered equal toxdebug.extended_info10

Answer 2

You took these two lines on stackoverflow - they are for the console. You need it for the web interface,
you definitely don't need them. And they are not in php.ini, but in bashrc.

Answer 3

In my case, " Cannot evaluate expression '`isset($_SERVER['PHP_IDE_CONFIG'])`' ' was caused by using ' test.php ' as the filename of the script being debugged in IntelliJ IDEA / PhpStorm.
Changing the script filename to something else fixed the problem.

Answer 4

I recorded a video on how to set up a debugger, I hope it will help: https://school.makenow.com.ua/video/12

Answer 5

Another reason for the "Cannot evaluate expression" problem could be that xdebug is included as "extension=". Must be connected as "zend_extension="