I am trying to do the 3rd party web server debugging and am having problems after spending quite a bit of time on the help. Here is what I have so far...

I am on XP and have IIS running.
In Settings -> IDE I have it set to HTTP mode (3rd party WEB server)
PHP DBG Listener is running
I have this in my php.ini
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extension=php_dbg.dll-4.3.9
[debugger]
debugger.enabled=on
debugger.profiler_enabled=on
debugger.hosts_allow=10.162.178.195
debugger.hosts_deny=ALL
debugger.ports=7869, 10000/16
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Settings -> Debugger port is set to 7860
When I run the phpinfo function I do see:
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DBG php debugger, version 2.16.14, Copyright 2001, 2004 Dmitri
Dmitrienko, http://www.nusphere.com/dbg
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When I do CTRL-F9 the output tab does come up and it loads my page, but that is all it does. no debugging starts.

i can't believe it. many hours later and I somehow got it to work.

though I know setting up debugging is a complicated matter, I do believe it could be made easier then what I had to go through. this is the main reason I would pay for something like PhpED. I would recommend better help. Like maybe seperate help files for Windows versus Linux.

no doubts. Ctrl-F9 is not supposed to run debugger at all. It's F9 (namely Run With Debugger) intended.
Also, you have specified one port (7860) to be requested and did not make it allowed (allowed ports are 7869, 10000-10015). No doubts it won't work too.
Thanks for the recommendations... But where in the manual did you find Ctrl-F9 shortcut for running with debugger ?

TIA.

That was a typo. I had 7869 and I eventually did get the debugger to work

I did not get it anywhere, but I was losing hope trying to read the help so I tried all types of buttons.

I have worked with many other editors and have not had such a hard time getting a debugger to work. the help made me jump around different pages to get everything to work. I would liked either
1. It just all works without even needing to read the help
2. The help is just one page that tells me everything i need to do to get it working on a XP machine with IIS installed.

Also, this is just constructive criticism as I think this is one of the best (if not the best) PHP editors around. However, IMHO, it has a little ways to go to compete with some of the editors from other languages. Then again this is way cheaper so maybe I am just being greedy.

and I figured out the problem that caused me so much grief and would display this error...



the problem stems from these lines I cut and pasted from the help into the PHP.INI file.



Well, once I took out hosts_deny=ALL it started to work. I thought that hosts_deny=All meant it would deny all except for what I allow in hosts_allow. This is a mistake I am sure other people have made while some some probably did not read it all and just cut and pasted the lines.

Actually it means that: deny ALL except ones listed in the allowed.
Check if you typed right IP of the host where you run the IDE.
If you use SSH tunneling you have to list localhost only (or server's own IP depending on how you forwarded the sockets).