Debugger compile handler overriden, cannot continue

Sometimes you come across a problem so horrid that even google search only results in one link that talks about the problem.  This post is titled Debugger compile handler overriden, cannot continue in the hope that google will index this post so other people having this error message of “Debugger compile handler overriden, cannot continue” will find this page and find the solution that has taken me over 2 hours to fix.

The problem:

When running Zend Studio Client and Zend Studio Server on the same windows PC and trying to install ionCube loaders as a Zend Extension you get the message “Debugger compile handler overriden, cannot continue” when trying to load a page.  (This relates to Joomla as SEF advance needs ionCube and I need Zend Studio debugger to debug sites I am developing)

The Solution

To get rid of the error message “Debugger compile handler overriden, cannot continue” you need to edit the php.ini file. For zend that is normally in C:\Program Files\Zend\ZendStudioServer-5.1.0\etc\php.ini

In that file remove the line:

zend_debugger.expose_remotely=allowed_hosts

and restart apache - bingo! problem solved.

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