How to getting Xdebug working for php 7.3 and apache (MACOS)

Question

I'm trying to get Xdebug (I installed 2.7 with pecl) working for php but getting the following error.

php -v
Xdebug requires Zend Engine API version 320160303.
The Zend Engine API version 320180731 which is installed, is newer.
Contact Derick Rethans at http://xdebug.org/docs/faq#api for a later version of Xdebug. 

PHP 7.3.3 (cli) (built: Mar  8 2019 16:40:07) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.3, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.3.3, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

I've installed the latest version of PHP 7.3 with Homebrew, but Apache is using PHP Version 7.1.23 . I think I'm having an issue because I'm using wrong Zend API version.

php config in httpd.conf is

LoadModule php7_module libexec/apache2/libphp7.so

phpize gives the following.

/usr/local/bin/phpize -v
        Configuring for:
        PHP Api Version:         20180731
        Zend Module Api No:      20180731
        Zend Extension Api No:   320180731

I've added the following to php.ini

zend_extension=/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303/xdebug.so

Which exists here :

/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303  ls
opcache.a  opcache.so xdebug.so

My questions

• how do I get apache to use php 7.3?


• will this solve my Xdebug issue?

Answer 1

After quite a bit more research I found the following tool.

https://xdebug.org/wizard.php

I followed the instructions with some minor changes required for the path and Xdebug is now working.