Difficulty configuring project for remote debugging when index.php not at project root

[zburnham]

I have a project I'll call "Example Project". In the root folder of the project, there is a folder called 'htdocs', which contains my index.php file. On the server side, the 'htdocs' folder is the DocumentRoot of the virtual host.

In other words, c:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Example Project\htdocs\index.php maps to http://www.example.com/index.php .

I cannot determine how to correctly set up netbeans for remote debugging in this case. I have a feeling I need to set up a server path mapping but I do not understand how it's supposed to work.

In the project properties -> run configuration dialog, I have tried to set the index file to "index.php", but it insists it can't find it. Which makes sense, i guess, since it's expecting to find an 'index.php' file at the root of the project directory.

Something else strange: In trying to isolate this issue, I at one point had an index.php at the root of the project and one inside the htdocs folder. I started a debug session, and found I could step through code. This was not something I could do before.. however, what was happening is that the code I was stepping through was *not* the code being displayed. In other words, if I were suspended on line 5 in htdocs/index.php, I would see the run indicator (green highlighted line) on line five in index.php. Very strange!

Any suggestions are welcome.

[zburnham]

Found the answer to my question. In Project properties -> Sources there is a place to enter "Web root". There you can specify the directory that is your webroot. Once I did this, I could debug as intended.

I had missed it because it was greyed out for some reason.