How to disable XDebug

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Beto Aveiga picture Beto Aveiga · Jan 6, 2012 · Viewed 189.3k times · Source

I think that my server became slow since I installed XDebug. So, in order to test my hypothesis I want to disable XDebug completely. I've been searching for tutorials on how to do this but I can't find such information.

Answer

Uday Sawant picture Uday Sawant · Jan 6, 2012

Find your php.ini and look for XDebug.

Set xdebug autostart to false

xdebug.remote_autostart=0  
xdebug.remote_enable=0

Disable your profiler

xdebug.profiler_enable=0

Note that there can be a performance loss even with xdebug disabled but loaded. To disable loading of the extension itself, you need to comment it in your php.ini. Find an entry looking like this:

zend_extension = "/path/to/php_xdebug.dll"

and put a ; to comment it, e.g. ;zend_extension = ….

Check out this post XDebug, how to disable remote debugging for single .php file?

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