Most developer use a local website to test and develop their applications. One of the most used servers is Apache. Since for many developers setting this complex tool is not worth spending their time, some use smart installers who can do those settings for them. I personally use Vertrigo server, who brings me the advantage of 0 time for install, 0 time required for setting and making other tools work together, like MySQL, PHP, PHP MyAdmin, Zend Optimizer etc.

This tutorial is for Windows environment, but it can be easily adapted to Linux or MAC environments because all the settings are done in the configurations files.

The problem that I want to solve in this tutorial arises when one might want to debug its work. I mean, you wrote your application in PHP. There are some tools to allow you to debug it, but either are costly, like Zend Studio and Zend Server or are hard to setup, like XCode. At the end of the day, you’re paid to create applications, not to do dirty settings in 10 or so files in order to enable a simple debug feature.

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