# Can't get it to work **URL:** \ **Category:** Xdebug + VS Code\ **Tags:** installation, mac\ **Created:** [December 31, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/cant-get-it-to-work/23667 "2020-12-31T10:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![haffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@haffy](https://community.localwp.com/u/haffy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/cant-get-it-to-work/23667/1 "2020-12-31T10:28:38Z")
Hi, I have now spend an hour fiddeling with installing X Debug without Homebrew and stumbled upon this Xdebug + VS Code in Local. Great I thought ! And removed all other things that I had done and installed it. But I can’t get it to work. This is driving me crazy 🙂 I have tried to open VS Code from many different roots now, but the launch.json that opens when I try to run debug always miss the important thing from the “ADD RUN CONFIGURATION TO VS CODE”, but when I cd and nano in to the .vscode folder in the root I get the right stuff. So some connection is wrong. Do I need to install XDebug in VS Code or PHP Debug or something? ---
**Author:** ![haffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@haffy](https://community.localwp.com/u/haffy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/cant-get-it-to-work/23667/2 "2021-01-04T19:49:36Z")
![Skärmavbild 2021-01-04 kl. 20.43.25](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/lwpforums/original/2X/5/5caa880c582d50235ae8e4efe329adf2eaa25ef8.jpeg) Local makes this .vscode folder and when I run debug in VS Code I get this folder 2. And if I move the code from 1 to 2 and then install PHP Debug extension and then run I get: “Listen for Xdebug (local) (sitename)” Is that what I am supposed to get? ---
**Author:** ![haffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/51bf81/32.png) [@haffy](https://community.localwp.com/u/haffy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/cant-get-it-to-work/23667/3 "2021-01-04T20:06:31Z")
Ooo the answer was here by Clay. > **[How to get Xdebug working with Visual Studio Code?](https://community.localwp.com/t/how-to-get-xdebug-working-with-visual-studio-code/3493/21)** > > Awesome. Glad you got it working. The debugger in Chrome solved it for me. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.localwp.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://community.localwp.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/cant-get-it-to-work/23667/4 "2021-09-30T17:28:51Z")
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