{"id":197,"date":"2009-12-27T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2011-06-10T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T22:19:11","slug":"dont-hand-edit-your-mamp-php-ini-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"DON&#8217;T HAND EDIT YOUR MAMP PHP.INI FILE!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the agony.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the better part of a day trying to get Xdebug working on my MAMP site on my Mac. I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluestatic.org\/software\/macgdbp\/help.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technosophos.com\/content\/debugging-your-php-code-xdebug-mamp-textmate-and-macgdbp-support\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/debuggable.com\/posts\/setting-up-xdebug-on-mac-os-x-or-win32-linux:480f4dd6-0240-4a90-8fa1-4e41cbdd56cb\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&#8230; all you have to do is to &#8220;edit your php.ini file&#8221; and bada-boom! you are off to the races.<\/p>\n<p>No, no and no.\u00c2\u00a0The problem was that it kinda works, then it doesn&#8217;t, then nothing does, then things work but xdebug doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I have realized that when things start to get real hard, I&#8217;m doing something wrong, terribly wrong. Some where in some place, I&#8217;ve made the simplest of errors, creating a cacophony of bugs so bad, I&#8217;ve got to look down to see up.<\/p>\n<p>I use MAMP, I also use MAMP PRO. Some scorn, I don&#8217;t because it seems to save me time. It would have this time, if I had RTFM&#8217;d. No, I didn&#8217;t. Instead I read what everybody else said &#8220;edit your php.ini file by hand&#8221;. <strong>WRONG<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Instead, use MAMP PRO&#8217;s \u00c2\u00a0File-Edit Template command. It was RIGHT THERE!!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/node\/66187\" target=\"_blank\">Drupal<\/a>. You saved my sanity. As for the rest, the rest of your information was pretty good, all except for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the agony. I spent the better part of a day trying to get Xdebug working on my MAMP site on my Mac. I read here, here and here&#8230; all you have to do is to &#8220;edit your php.ini file&#8221; and bada-boom! you are off to the races. No, no and no.\u00c2\u00a0The problem was that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DON&#8217;T HAND EDIT YOUR MAMP PHP.INI FILE!!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,31,32],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvRD1-3b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":169,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=169","url_meta":{"origin":197,"position":0},"title":"Riding the local... 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