$_SERVER not populated when using Eclipse PDT with xdebug

[Caterwomtious]

I'm trying to set up PHP debugging using Eclipse PDT and xdebug. I'm temptingly close: I can step though a simple test script successfully.

However, when I try to debug my actual website I hit a problem. The $_SERVER array doesn't have all its usual variables populated when debugging, and my scripts rely on them. It's fine when I run the page normally.

A var_dump($_SERVER) when debugging shows that it's not completely empty; it has the following variables set to appropriate values:

• 'ALLUSERSPROFILE'
• 'APPDATA'
• 'CLASSPATH'
• 'CLIENTNAME'
• 'CommonProgramFiles'
• 'COMPUTERNAME'
• 'ComSpec'
• 'DBGP_COOKIE'
• 'DBGP_IDEKEY'
• 'HOMEDRIVE'
• 'HOMEPATH'
• 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'
• 'LOGONSERVER'

Does anyone have any idea what how I might get the usual DOCUMENT_ROOT, REQUEST_URI etc in there during a debug session?

I'm using Windows XP, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2.6, Eclipse 3.3.2 and xdebug 2.0.3-5.2.5

[CoderMaya]

Hmm.. I'm not sure as I never used debugging for PHP, but does x debug use Apache somehow?

[logic_earth]

Using PHP thought the command-line is different then running though a server like Apache. $_SERVER will not contain those things that are associated with a server. (REQUEST_URI, DOCUMENT_ROOT, HTTP_*)