This post is about setting up XMAPP on a mac with xdebug.

The first thing we are going to do is to change the document root inside xampp to the ‘Sites’ folder. Changing the DocumentRoot has a few benefits – one being that its far easier to get to in the finder and your editor!

Changing the DocumentRoot in XAMPP

• Install xampp from apachefriends.org
• open /Applications/XAMPP/xampfiles/etc/ in finder; right click > get info
  make sure its read / write by everyone
• open /Applications/XAMPP/xampfiles/etc/httpd.conf
• scroll down to ‘DocumentRoot’
• type in the location of your ‘sites’ folder [ /Users/username/Sites ]
• scroll down to the <Directory> config
• replace /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs with /Users/username/Sites
• save
• restart apache
• goto http://localhost to see what you have =)

setting up xDebug

This will allow you to have proper debugging for your php apps. In the long run this will save you hours of time.