Hi I bought recently a licence and I'm trying to set up the remote debugger at Bluehost (a shared hosting company).

I found from the wizard that:
PHP extensions directory is ./

The how to install part of the wizard suggest:
Add the following lines to /home/MY_SITE_NAME/public_html/php.ini
zend_extension=./dbg.so-5.1.x

However I found at http://forum.nusphere.com/howto-install-debugger-module-t576.html that extension_dir should not be ./
4. make sure extension_dir is not ./. If it is, please set up extension_dir setting in php.ini accordingly. For example "c:/php4/extensions" or "/usr/lib/php4" under unix.

It sounds inconsistent to me and I've been hours trying to make it works. Could you give an idea on how to make it work?

Thanks a lot.

Juan


From my PHP.ini file:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Paths and Directories ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
include_path = ".:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php" ;
doc_root = ; the root of the php pages, used only if nonempty
user_dir = ; the directory under which php opens the script using /~username, used only if nonempty
extension_dir = ./ ; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside
enable_dl = On ; Whether or not to enable the dl() function.


[Debugger]
debugger.host = localhost
debugger.port = 7869
debugger.enabled = False


[Zend]
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15

zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer
zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so
zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so

extension_dir = ./ ; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside
^^^^^^^^^
it's what you have to change in php.ini
Normally, /usr/lib/php or something similar should be there.

Hi Dmtri,

Thanks for responding.

From your post I understand that I must change the line:

extension_dir = ./ ; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside

to something like:

extension_dir = /usr/lib/php; directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside

However, I don't have access to /usr/lib/php and I believe that the reason for changing that line is because I must upload the file dbg.so-5.1.x into this directory.

I've a couple of questions:

Since I can't access /usr/lib/php tryed creating a directory into /public_html and uploaded the file into. I made the edit to PHP.ini to point to the file extension_dir = /public_html/my_ext_dir/; , but It did not work.

Do you have any suggestion considering that I can't access /usr/lib/php?

Thanks in advance.

from our conversation by email, it appeared that you installed 32bit module on server running under 64bit hardware. You need to install module from x86_64 subdirectory.