From Nothing to Everything with Ubuntu, Drupal, and Komodo Debugging

I've been using ActiveState's Komodo for a few weeks now in response to my frustrations with Eclipse. As with any IDE there was a short relearning of my ways that was necessary, but I am happy to report that I really like this IDE. The last bit of functionality I've been wanting to tie together is directly related to debugging Drupal in Komodo. Here's the steps that I took to get a Drupal development environment with debugging in Komodo on a clean installation of a 64bit Ubuntu 8.04.

A good deal of this may be redundant if you already have your environment established, but it is recorded here nonetheless to help others become proficient at what we do. While I prefer command line interfaces I am going to lean towards providing gui tools to allow newer devs options. If you don't need or want all of the minute details skip to step 6 and get straight into configuring for debugging.

Install the LAMP stack. LAMP is the abbreviation for Linux Apache MySql and PHP. We are going to go with the latest versions that are available in the Ubuntu repositories which means that, as of this writing, we will be running php 5.2. In addition to the traditional LAMP integration, Komodo also supports Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, XSLT and Javascript as well as xDebug, CVS, and SVN integration. Let's get all of this installed at once so we don't have to bother with it later.

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