The following text needs to go into your local php.ini file and then if you are using a webserver it will need to be restarted. Using the CGI binary it will be affected at the next execution. To verify that the module is being loaded run a script with a call to phpinfo() and at the bottom of the top table you will see a copyright notice from Zend, after this text in the same table cell you should see the notice for XDebug. Please modify the zend_extension_ts entry if you have changed the installation directory away from the default. [xdebug] zend_extension_ts="c:/Program Files/Maguma Workbench/tools/xdebug-4.3dev-2.0dev.dll" xdebug.auto_trace = On xdebug.collect_params = On xdebug.default_enable = On xdebug.remote_enable = On xdebug.remote_handler = gdb xdebug.remote_host = localhost xdebug.remote_mode = req xdebug.remote_port = 9000 xdebug.dump_once = On xdebug.dump_undefined = On