I was getting this error message:

Failed to run DBG session

reason:
client ip address [NULL] lookup failed

This script reproduces the problem:


but this script does not reproduce the problem:



Naturally I set the register globals directive back on, and set variable order to "SE". The problem disapeared.

I'm guessing that some PHP optimization (or perhaps apache ?) is not fetching the _SERVER data unless it's explicitly required by the script, and apperently DBG does not inform PHP that it needs that data, and simply gets a null and the rest is history.

I have saved a copy of my php.ini and compilation switches, I'll send them by email if you'll need them.

Am I being ignored... ?

Was it something I said... ?

register_globals should not affect anything in DBG.
But what did you set for variable order when DBG didn't work ?