I have read and tried what I've found yet I cannot get it to work, it just keeps on hanging at "Waiting for connection (netbeans-xdebug)" when starting debugging.
I do have xdebug installed (I am using wamp) and I've actually managed to get breakpoints working with sublime text 2 (yea that's right!) so the problem is not with php/xdebug on my pc per se but some setting I am missing.
my php.ini for xdebug:
; XDEBUG Extension
[xdebug]
;zend_extension ="c:/wamp64/bin/php/php5.6.25/zend_ext/php_xdebug-2.4.1-5.6-vc11-x86_64.dll"
zend_extension ="c:\wamp64\bin\php\php5.6.25\ext\php_xdebug-2.5.4-5.6-vc11-x86_64.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.profiler_enable = 0
xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = off
xdebug.profiler_output_name = cachegrind.out.%t.%p
xdebug.profiler_output_dir ="c:/wamp64/tmp"
xdebug.show_local_vars=0
xdebug.remote_hander =dbgp
xdebug.remote_mode = req
xdebug.remote_host =127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
xdebug.idekey=netbeans-xdebug
xdebug.remote_connect_back=1
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
Netbeans debugging options are set as defaults except I unchecked "stop at first line" coz I read somewhere to do so.
If you need more info on something let me know.