We just need to create an SSH tunnel using putty so that the server can communicate with our IDE that uses Xdebug. ebextension files within the application code handles all of the server config. We don’t need to SSH and do any commands on the instance, the. Then we need to create a Key pair so that we can SSH to the instance. (Actually I do not think we need to have this port open, since we are using the SSH Tunnel that goes through port 22) Below is a screenshot of the security group inbound rules, note that all traffic is allowed on the outbound rules. This port is used by Xdebug communication. To create a security group, go to EC2 -> Security Groups, then create a new one if you do not already have one that has the basics and then port 9000 open. Let’s create an Environment, nothing special here, we just need to make sure that we create a SSH Key pair and have the correct security group. Basic knowledge about AWS, EB, SecurityGroups and keys.Config PHP Storm to use the debugger and test.extension files to install and config Xdebug then deploy new version Create new EB Application, then PHP web server environment, using the sample project.Getting Xdebug running is usually a pain on a normal PHP server, Elastic Beanstalk (EB) makes this even more difficult as AWS has done some interesting things to the server.

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