PHPStorm + xdebug + ScotchBox 2.0

ScotchBox 2.0, by design, does not have xdebug installed. They give the following install instructions:

sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug
sudo service apache2 restart

Which works as far as it goes, but even successfully using PHPStorm's "Web Server Debug Validation", and installing and using the Xdebug bookmarklet, I was not able to get the debugger working.

This post gave me the insight that I needed, so I added the following code to the end of my php.ini (sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini).

[xdebug]
zend_extension="/usr/lib/php5/20131226/xdebug.so"
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_connect_back=on
xdebug.remote_host=192.168.33.10

Restart apache (sudo service apache2 restart), run PHPStorm's "Web Server Debug Validation" again, and Bob's your uncle.

---

Thanks to Joao Paulo for making it simplier.