# Setting up xDebug with PHPStorm and DevKinsta on Windows
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/setting-up-xdebug-with-phpstorm-and-devkinsta-on-windows/951
**Category:** Application Support
**Created:** [August 25, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/setting-up-xdebug-with-phpstorm-and-devkinsta-on-windows/951 "2021-08-25T22:02:02Z")
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### Author:  [@Ognjen\_Babic](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Ognjen_Babic)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/setting-up-xdebug-with-phpstorm-and-devkinsta-on-windows/951/1 "2021-08-25T22:02:02Z")
I’ve followed the guide posted by [philippstracker](https://community.kinsta.com/u/philippstracker) on this link: [Guide: How to set up Xdebug (on DevKinsta) with PhpStorm](https://community.kinsta.com/t/guide-how-to-set-up-xdebug-on-devkinsta-with-phpstorm/944)
However, I couldn’t get it to establish conneciton.
When I run `php -v` inside devkinsta\_fpm container I get:
PHP 7.4.18 (cli) (built: May 3 2021 11:27:06) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.4.18, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v3.0.4, Copyright (c) 2002-2021, by Derick Rethans
But in settings of CLI-interpreter it says Debugger: Not Installed
My php ini from /etc/php/7.4/cli/ini.php has:
```auto
[xdebug]
xdebug.mode = debug
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
xdebug.discover_client_host = 1
xdebug.remote_host=host.docker.internal
xdebug.remote_port=9003
```
as well as php.ini ini /etc/php/7.4/fpm/
My /etc/php/7.4/fpm/conf.d has 20-xdebug.ini looking like this:
```auto
zend_extension = xdebug.so
xdebug.mode = develop,debug
xdebug.start_with_request=yes
xdebug.client_port=9003
xdebug.client_host=host.docker.internal
xdebug.log=/www/kinsta/logs/xdebug.log
```
Also, I’m pretty sure I’ve set up the path mappings correctly to the root of my local kinsta website:
However this is what the validation from debug returns:
Any help would be very much appreciated!
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### Author:  [@philippstracker](https://community.kinsta.com/u/philippstracker)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/setting-up-xdebug-with-phpstorm-and-devkinsta-on-windows/951/2 "2021-08-25T22:30:35Z")
Hey @Ognjen_Babic 🙂 Glad you came across my guide here.
From what I can see, you’re almost right. However, you use a mix of Xdebug v2 and v3 settings in your FPM ini file (the CLI ini looks right)
The following options might work:
```ini
zend_extension = xdebug.so
xdebug.mode = develop,debug
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
xdebug.discover_client_host = 1
xdebug.client_host = host.docker.internal
xdebug.client_port = 9003
```
(the last 2 lines changed)
After that, please restart the docker container to apply the changes to all php services:
`docker restart devkinsta_fpm`
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/setting-up-xdebug-with-phpstorm-and-devkinsta-on-windows/951/3 "2021-11-10T14:50:39Z")
We haven’t heard back from you on this topic in a while. However, if you do need further assistance you can simply create a new topic on the forum. Thank you again for using DevKinsta. Let us know if you need further assistance! 👋
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/setting-up-xdebug-with-phpstorm-and-devkinsta-on-windows/951/4 "2021-11-10T14:50:43Z")