vscode-php-debug | PHP Debug Adapter for Visual Studio Code 🐞⛔ | Code Inspection library

Expected behavior:

I have multiple PHP projects on different servers, usually I debug them with PhpStorm which allows me to configure path mappings for remote debugging per server. Thus I can have the same remote paths e.g. /var/www/html for different servers.

Problem description:

So far I have been unable to configure multiple servers with the same remote paths using VSCode.

I use the most used php-debug plugin for VSCode and have not found any information regarding this issue on the projects GitHub page or anywhere else.

Currently I do not think configuring multiple remote servers using VSCode is possible at this time but in case someone knows a way I would appreciate it.

Current configuration:

With the following configuration I can only debug one project at once and have to change the paths manually when I want to debug another project on another server with the same remote paths.

So, I'm trying to get the vscode-firefox-debug to play.

It, vscode-firefox-debug, claims to be compatible with vscode remote.

How do I configure this thing, to work with my remote?

All my development is done on a remote headless server, running Slackware64 14.2

Let's call that box www.example.com.

My local box is a Windows 8.1 x64 Pro with:

Firefox 69.0.1 (64-bit)

I have been using XDebug with PHP Version 7.0.* for the last 6 months on a MAC using remote debugging to a Docker container.

I was running an older version of docker that was using VirtualBox to VM for docker, all was working fine.

I recently updated docker to version 17.03.1 and have had nothing but issues with xDebug. I have contacted the creator of vscode-php-debug via an issue on his repository and he then pointed me to take the issue up with xdebug and or docker.

My issue is the following:

XDebug is running and working on my container, the xdebug log shows that it connects to my IDE but it simply closes the connection as if there are no breakpoints when I have breakpoints set in VSCode.

The issue I posted on vscode-php-debug can be found here

Which has a copy of my xDebug logs and VSCode debug logs... It shows that the connection is made but no breakpoints are hit.

I have read around a few blogs that docker now needs a loopback ip created for the connection to xdebug to work, which I have also tried and failed.

I'm finding it surprisingly hard to debug without a debugger after using one for so long.

I have tried many configs, reinstalled, rebooted, rebuilt images/containers and even have tried the docker and xdebug irc channels on freenode without any success.

Debugging PHP with Visual Studio Code and XDebug on the server. The server-side config goes: