PhpStorm & XAMPP - debugging not starting

I am having a hard time with PhpStorm debugger. I read all their documentation and I have setup debug properly (according to both phpinfo(), debug tailored installation report and PhpStorm analysis).

However, no matter what I try, the debugger wont trigger.

My setup is the following:

I changed XAMPP document root to: c:\src\project\www

My project has the following structure:

project    
 | www (used by XAMPP to serve the website)
 | src    
   | --theme (symlinked to wp-content/themes)    
   | --plugins (symlinked to wp-content/plugins)

and apparently, this setup works as all my plugins and theme are correctly working and displayed on the screen.

When I then start to run the debugger, it simply won't trigger.

This is the setup for the debugger on PhpStorm:

Server:

Host: localhost
Port: 80
Debugger: xdebug

Mappings (where I think there's something off)

src/theme   --> c:/src/project/www/wp-content/theme/
src/plugins --> c:/src/project/www/wp-content/plugins/

but nothing happens. No mappings errors, no debug, nothing at all.

Can you please explain to me what am I doing wrong here?

let me know if you need more info.

EDIT:

php.ini added line for debug (from xdebug website):

zend_extension = C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.5.4-7.1-vc14.dll

PhpStorm PHP settings:

Solution 1:

This is from my setup :

php.ini

[xdebug]
;zend_extension=xdebug.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/Cellar/php55-xdebug/2.4.0/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_connect_back=0
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9002
xdebug.remote_log="/mnt/log/xdebug.log"
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
xdebug.idekey=phpstorm
xdebug.remote_mode = req

phpstorm :

setup in accordance with above parameters. Note that I use port 9002 to skit around a conflict with php-fpm which is part of my stack. Also, i force xdebug logging on a specific drive to ease the burden on my laptop SSD, etc ... Adapt to your configuration.