Introduction

A while back I setup a LEMP server (Linux, NginX, MySQL, and PHP) using Virtual Box. This is fine for testing out how a live server might behave, or even for using as a virtual server if you don't have the dedicated hardware to host a server. However, for a server in active development it's a huge inconvenience as everytime I want to test out a change, no matter how small, I was forced to push the changes to the virtual server. To get around this, I'm going to setup a development server which can run in the Windows environment I normally use. I'm also going to setup the XDebug plugin. This will allow me to debug php code without using the "traditional" console/echo solution. I'm unsure if XDebug would work with my virtual server setup, but I do know it works with this development setup.