Sail - Initiate Xdebug session from command line

Question

So the last version of Sails makes it very easy to use Xdebug. Basically just had to define SAIL_XDEBUG_MODE in the .env file, configure path mapping in PhpStorm, activate listening and all was set - it works perfectly from the browser.

Now, how should I go if I want Xdebug to activate when I'm using the command line? Like when using artisan commands for seeding, or even better when using custom artisan commands created to run scripts to update some data... I can't find any arguments to add to my sail artisan myOwnCommand that would tell Xdebug it has to activate.

I'm working on Windows 11 with WSL2.

Thanks ahead!

Answer 1

Thanks to Derick's suggestion, I found out a solution. Prepending a sail call with anything wouldn't help, since sail calls scripts in the docker container, and your environment variable wouldn't be set there. But since it was just about setting an environment variable, it can be easily done in docker-compose file.

I just had to add PHP_IDE_CONFIG: 'serverName=0.0.0.0' in the environment section of my Laravel service. Of course replace 0.0.0.0 with your own server name. Then, instead of running sail artisan test or sail artisan my:command you replace artisan with debug, as stated in the docs.