PHP Remote Debugging with XDebug and NetBeans

Although some of these instructions are specific to Debian Linux (and more specifically, for MindTouch 2009 Enterprise VM), hopefully these steps will get you up and running with PHP debugging (and not the kind where you litter your code with print statements, or take a var_dump() all over your code…).

No, this is for the kind of debugging where you can set breakpoints, watch variables, look at the stack trace, and modify your code on the fly! Hooray for that!
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