Purinda Gunasekara

Enabling XDebug in AMPPS 2.2

· updated · #macos #php · 1 min read

Once you have installed AMPPS 2.2 on MacOSx and navigate to PHP section in the AMPPS UI.

Click on “Php Extension” button and you will see a list of extensions but XDebug, In order to get Xdebug to appear in that list you will have to goto /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.<version using>/lib/extensions/

and copy the xdebug.so file in /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.<version using>/lib/extensions/ directory to /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.<version using>/lib/extensions/ext directory.

Then the xdebug extension will show up in the extensions list.

in brief

cd /Applications/AMPPS/php-5.<version using>/lib/extensions/
cp xdebug.so ext/