Setup Port forwarding on the debugged machine:
ssh student@atutor
echo -e "\nGatewayPorts yes \n" | sudo tee -a /etc/ssh/sshd_config && sudo service sshd restart
Set up proxy Server on the Kali VM/VPN machine :
echo -e "\nGatewayPorts yes \n" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config && service sshd restart
sudo nano/etc/squid/squid.conf
http_port 8888
acl container src 192.168.143.0/24
http_access allow container
service squid restart
ssh -R8888:localhost:8888 -R9000:localhost:9000 -vvv student@atutor
Set up SSH remote port Forwarding on the PHPSTORM installed machine:
ssh -R 9000:localhost:9000 -vvv [email protected]
Where 192.168.115.131 is the Kali VM IP
Set up and install debugging tools on the debugged machine:
ssh student@atutor
sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:8888";
Acquire::https::Proxy "https://localhost:8888";
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5-dev
sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug
sudo updatedb
locate xdebug.so
/usr/lib/php5/20131226/xdebug.so
sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-xdebug.ini
zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20131226/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_host = 127.0.0.1
xdebug.remote_enable = 1
xdebug.remote_port = 9000
;xdebug.remote_handler = dbgp
;xdebug.remote_mode = req
;xdebug.profiler_enable=0
;xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger=1
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
;xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM
xdebug.remote_log="/tmp/xdebug.log"
sudo service apache2 restart
sudo systemctl restart nginx
php --version
PHP 5.6.40-0+deb8u12 (cli) (built: Jun 28 2020 09:37:30)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.2.5, Copyright (c) 2002-2014, by Derick Rethans
Setup xdebug plugin on firefox Kali VM :
Right now, we did everything, we need to install xdebug helper plugin in Firefox and enable it, so it can add the XDEBUG_SESSION=PHPSTORM; as cookie value automatically.
Setup PHPSTORM xdebug listener on the PHPSTORM installed machine:
Using PHPStorm, Add mapping path of the file on disk and absolute server path.
Then,enable the debugger icon.
Then click this icon:
