xdebug in netbeans won't bind to port 9000

Question

I've been trying to configure xdebug to work along with netbeans, my current configuration is

[xdebug]
zend_extension="C:\binaries\php\ext\php_xdebug-2.1.0RC1-5.3-vc6.dll"
xdebug.remote_enable=on 
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp 
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1 (also tried localhost)
xdebug.remote_port=9000 
xdebug.idekey="netbeans-xdebug"

I tried the test provided by a netbeans blog explaining how to test if the configuration works when binding it just outputs "unable to bind"

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

A couple of things off the top of my head...

Firstly, check that nothing else is already listening to port 9000 (on the command line, type netstat -an ).

If that doesn't show anything, make sure the Windows Firewall is not enabled.