[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: Remote as in Remore and not localhost remot

[Tom Walter <eclipsenews.20.epm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > Unfortunately this isn't really possible. The Eclipse PDT will be
> "running" from your machine, and by running I mean the process will be 
> actively running within your computer (cpu / memory) so when you debug 
> XDebug needs to know how to contact your running Eclipse PDT to inform 
> it when it is on certain lines of code.

Actually it's perfectly possible to debug a process running on a 
different server. Xdebug communicates with eclipse via TCP so it doesn't 
matter whether the apache server with xdebug running is a completely 
different machine on the other side of the world to the computer you are 
running eclipse on. Of course, you have to make sure that the relevant 
ports etc are open through your firewall/router, and that the xdebug 
server knows to allow debugging from your IP. But it's exactly what the 
debugger is designed to do.

Getting eclipse to access the files on the remote fileserver will be 
much harder. I've tried using RSE myself but honestly I couldn't make 
head nor tail of it. If you manage to figure it out, I'd love to hear 
how you did it!

Cheers
Tom