Guess this theme repeated here 1000 times, but I didn’t find why VSCode cannot debug PHP code.

• Latest VSCode with all required PHP extensions (PHP Debug also). Windows 11.
• php --version:

PHP 8.3.9 (cli) (built: Jul  2 2024 18:17:57) (NTS Visual C++ 2019 x64)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.3.9, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.3.9, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v3.3.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2024, by Derick Rethans

• xdebug section in php.ini is:

[xdebug]
zend_extension=xdebug
xdebug.mode=debug
xdebug.client_host=127.0.0.1
xdebug.client_port=9003
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
xdebug.discover_client_host = true
xdebug.log_level = 0

• VSCode launch.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Listen for Xdebug",
            "type": "php",
            "request": "launch",
            "port": 9003
        }
    ]
}

• netstat -tan | grep 9003:

  TCP    0.0.0.0:9003           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57536        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57537        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57538        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57541        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57542        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57543        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57544        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57546        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    127.0.0.1:57547        127.0.0.1:9003         TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    [::]:9003              [::]:0                 LISTENING       InHost

• Start Laravel Development Server, put debug breakpoint in right place, then open page in Firefox (with XDebug helper set in “Debug” mode) – nothing debugged, just ordinal execution.