Install PHP XDebug via Pecl

Even though you may find xdebug in a yum repository, due to version incompatibilities you may need to compile/install it using Pecl. Following are several easy steps to achieve exactly that:

check the output of the command above, if everything went well, you should see something like :

at the end of the output. Note the location of the .so file and using it create /etc/php.d/xdebug.ini file that rads something like:

Once you are done with the installation, restart Apache and check the PHP module list with: "php -m", you should see "xdebug" appear in the list.