The following issue, originally detailed at Could not connect to debugging client for an older version of the Local app, is still happening on all sites. Other, similar threads in the forums don’t provide a solution. Modifying the php.ini to use port 9003 doesn’t work. Issue Summary In debug log, …

I have seen the same thing on my Mac. I believe that I tracked it to being related to the xdebug.start_with_request setting in php.ini. To alleviate this I set that to xdebug.start_with_request=trigger, but this then requires that you manually trigger Xdebug when needed, so not an ideal solution. Ev…

I didn’t exactly solve the issue, but I’ve had to deactivate xdebug (by commenting out the appropriate lines in the php.ini.hbs file) because of considerable performance issues on all my local sites when it remains active.

Anyone have a solution that doesn’t involve outright disabling it and is PHP8 compatible?

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lcraft June 29, 2022, 4:27pm 3

This happens on Windows 10 too. It’s a PHP 8 issue. I was able to manually adjust the php.ini.hbs file as described by Afragen here and that did the trick: Update PHP 8 lighting service - please

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