Please, describe your environment settings. What kind of deployment settings are you using in you project? Does it work for your project files? Do you have web server running on the remote environment?
I guess you have shared folder between remote and local environment (like Vagrant) or even you are trying to validate local environment. Am I right? Please, check that project files can be accesible by web path from your deployment configuration. If there is no problem with path mappings, please, send your 'php_info()' output.
I'm just trying to test a local only server. Yes, that configuration works fine for my actual web server, I just can't get the Validate to work. I can't send my entire php_info(), as that has senstive data in it. What portion do you need?
I need information about your PHP version (yes, php_info() isn't necessary for it) and information about your web server. Also, please check our latest EAP, there were some changes in validation proccess.
I am still struggling with this - I really need is the ability to debug a server remotely. The server runs PHP CLI scripts. I can remotely debug IIS scripts on the same server, but not the CLI scripts:
I can't pos our phpinfo() here, it has passwords in the environment variables (legacy, to be removed.)
System
Windows NT APP02 6.1 build 7601 (Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server Edition Service Pack 1) i586
Please, provide your idea.log (Help->Show Log in...)? It will help us to see if the validation script is creating in the right directory. Also attach a screenshot with your in-place deployment configurations.
If you are using in-place configuration, what do you mean under "the path mappings are not specified"? If it's really "in-place" you don't need any mappings. Please, clarify your environment configuration. Are the folders with your project and opened in PhpStorm exactly the same?
Hello,
Please, describe your environment settings. What kind of deployment settings are you using in you project? Does it work for your project files? Do you have web server running on the remote environment?
We have several different deployment configurations. I can't even get it to work on localhost for an in-place server.

I guess you have shared folder between remote and local environment (like Vagrant) or even you are trying to validate local environment. Am I right? Please, check that project files can be accesible by web path from your deployment configuration.
If there is no problem with path mappings, please, send your 'php_info()' output.
Attachment(s):
in_place_deployment.png
I need information about your PHP version (yes, php_info() isn't necessary for it) and information about your web server.
Also, please check our latest EAP, there were some changes in validation proccess.
I am still struggling with this - I really need is the ability to debug a server remotely. The server runs PHP CLI scripts. I can remotely debug IIS scripts on the same server, but not the CLI scripts:
I can't pos our phpinfo() here, it has passwords in the environment variables (legacy, to be removed.)
And to be clear, PHPStorm "catches" the debugger output, the path mappings are not specified.
Please, provide your idea.log (Help->Show Log in...)? It will help us to see if the validation script is creating in the right directory.
Also attach a screenshot with your in-place deployment configurations.
If you are using in-place configuration, what do you mean under "the path mappings are not specified"? If it's really "in-place" you don't need any mappings.
Please, clarify your environment configuration. Are the folders with your project and opened in PhpStorm exactly the same?
I think I figured it out. We use Windows Authentication on all of our IIS servers:
2013-10-29 09:52:21,000 [14166374] WARN - ation.PhpRemoteDebugValidation - GET method failed for "http://app02.pridedallas.com/_intellij_phpdebug_validator.php" with HTTP status 401.
Great!
Please, feel free to submit feature request for server authentification: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WI