modern vdebug: does it play nicely with neovim and xdebug v3.0.2?

[abbood]

I used to use vdebug back in the day and it worked like a charm (i had this interesting discussion on how to set it up here).

I haven't used it for a while though, and now I tried to set it up but on neovim instead and with xdebug 3.0.2.

but right off the bat the behaviour seems different, for example when i press F5 I get this on the prompt

Vdebug will wait for a connection

rather than what I was used to

waiting for a new connection on port 9000 for 10 seconds...

so I'm not even sure what port vdebug is listening to and nothing happens when i run the command.

note: this is the xdebug command i run on my cli:

php -dxdebug.mode=debug -dxdebug.start_with_request=yes -dxdebug.client_port=9000 -dxdebug.client_host=127.0.0.1

that used to work back in the day