Can't start php xdebug session from eclipse

Question

I'm trying to setup php debugging on my mac. I'm using eclipse together with xdebug. The application runs on a mamp server

here is my .ini

[xdebug]
zend_extension="/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.4/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525/xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9001
xdebug.remote_autostart=1

and here my eclipse debugger setup

Debug Port                9001
Accept remote session     Any

I have also checked if port 9001 is occupied by another application, but only eclipse is running there:

sudo lsof -i :9001
COMMAND   PID     USER    FD   TYPE              DEVICE  SIZE/OFF  NODE  NAME
eclipse   25648   auser  187u  IPv6  0x7c95b5b345ac5873       0t0   TCP  *:etlservicemgr (LISTEN)

Any suggestions what I could be missing?

Answer 1

turns out i was just editing the wrong .ini file.

This is the right one

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.10/conf/php.ini

I was editing this one:

/Applications/MAMP/conf/php5.4.10/php.ini