Configuring xDebug behind a NAT on a VM

Question

I'm setting up a development environment in a VM Ubuntu 12.04 in VMware Player. The host system is a windows 7 machine that I developed on previously. The project itself is mounted on a remote samba share, and the web application is run on a remote server. I've never had any problems using phpStorm's debugger in Win 7.

I've gone through identical configurations in phpStorm, and I've set both of them to break on the first line of the script.

I can't change the php.ini settings on the target server, and I've set up proper path mappings to the network drive.

I suspect this is an issue involving the NAT/firewall configuration of the VM, but I don't know where to look. How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

So I found that with VMware, network bridging has to be enabled, after I configured that, it worked fine.