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summary: Video walkthrough of debugging with PhpStorm and Xdebug.
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modifiedComment: "See updated guide: Xdebug in DDEV: Understanding, Debugging, and Troubleshooting Step Debugging"
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**Update**: See the comprehensive updated guide: [Xdebug in DDEV: Understanding, Debugging, and Troubleshooting Step Debugging](xdebug-step-debugging-understanding-and-troubleshooting.md) covering DDEV v1.25's new `ddev utility xdebug-diagnose` tool and advanced troubleshooting.

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title: "DDEV and Xdebug: Debugging and sorting out problems"
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summary: How Xdebug works with DDEV, and how to debug problems
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**Update**: See the comprehensive updated guide: [Xdebug in DDEV: Understanding, Debugging, and Troubleshooting Step Debugging](xdebug-step-debugging-understanding-and-troubleshooting.md) covering DDEV v1.25's new `ddev utility xdebug-diagnose` tool and advanced troubleshooting.

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PHP developers have long had a variety of complications using Xdebug. It's a network protocol, which means that firewalls and other network complications can confuse things. And often people just don't understand how it works. We'll try to sort out how Xdebug works in general, and explain what that means in DDEV, and how to debug problems.

Here's a recording of our **Xdebug contributor Training** walking through DDEV and Xdebug.
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