Visual Studio Code - Cannot set env without running a program (or

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I am been shown this unusual error. It has just started appearing and it's preventing me from debugging my WSL web solution.

I am running a php wordpress site in Visual Studio code and debugging it using XDebug. I have the following in my launch.json which I know for a fact worked yesterday and has been working fine for a while now.

When I try and debug I get a pop saying the following

I've never seen this message before and I can't see any information online about it.

My launch.json looks like the following

"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
    {
        "name":"Listen for XDebug",
        "type":"php",
        "request":"launch",
        "port":9003,
        "pathMappings": {
            "server path": "${workspaceRoot}" 
        },
        "xdebugSettings": {
            "max_data": 10000,
            //"show_hidden": 1,
            "max_children": 250,
            "max_depth": 10
        },
        "env": {
            "XDEBUG_MODE": "debug",
            "XDEBUG_TRIGGER": "VSCODE"
        }
    }
]

'server path' is the path of the project on the server.

I first thought that maybe the port was being used by something elese but it wasn't.

I have tried restarting Apache2, reloading PHP7.3-fpm and turning my computer off in the hopes that the issue resolves itself yet nothing seems to be working.

Has anyone else came across this issue?

@GrafiCode That's it! Why is that the case all of a sudden? env has been fine up until now? — JamesS
– JamesS, Commented Apr 12, 2022 at 13:47
please check out the second comment to this answer: stackoverflow.com/a/45426595/5334486 — GrafiCode
– GrafiCode, Commented Apr 12, 2022 at 13:49

Paul Snyder · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-15 21:31:50Z

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Open plugins and click gear icon for "PHP Debug" Extension
From dropdown menu, select "Install Another Version"
Click to select "1.25.0" from the menu
Click "Reload Required" to restart VS Code

edited Apr 15, 2022 at 21:31

answered Apr 15, 2022 at 21:01

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JamesS · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-12 14:20:59Z

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It seems that all of a sudden, for some reason env was not recognised and VSC no longer liked it. Replacing it with enivornment (as per the comment GrafiCode suggested) in the launch.json fixed the issue.

According to @burito in the comment, env has been renamed to `environment.

My only guess as to why this happened is that I have a .env file in my root that could had of been overriding the launch and so when I launched the solution, it hit the .env file first and seen that the solution wasn't running...thereby throwing the error/ pop-up.

answered Apr 12, 2022 at 14:20

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zobo Over a year ago

Hi. env was not renamed. See stackoverflow.com/a/71856274/1627618

zobo · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-13 10:53:24Z

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php-debug dev here.

I have added this error because people don't understand that without starting a program/script the debug adapter cannot influence the environment Xdebug is running in. Effectively in your launch.json the env does nothing.

Looking back on the change, I should have introduced a warning first...

Just to clarify, env was NOT renamed to enivornment.

answered Apr 13, 2022 at 10:53

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JamesS Over a year ago

Can you think of any reason as to why this would have all of a sudden happened? Even though nothing in the solution had changed from working to breaking? Also, is there any reason that the error stops at (or

zobo Over a year ago

I implemented and released this yesterday. See this PR github.com/xdebug/vscode-php-debug/pull/777 The text got somehow cut off and I did not see this. I will release a fix,

Galivan · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-14 14:57:27Z

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Alternatively you can use the browser extension "Xdebug helper". If set to "debug" it sets a cookie with "XDEBUG_TRIGGER: true" which triggers the debugging when you have start_with_request=trigger in php.ini.

(it's also possible to add the query parameter ?XDEBUG_TRIGGER=1 to the url).

answered Nov 14, 2022 at 14:57

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