diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 16644ba..0aaeb1b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ You can access Nginx and Symfony application logs in the following directories o
 
 You can also use Kibana to visualize Nginx & Symfony logs by visiting `http://symfony.localhost:81`.
 
+# Use xdebug!
+
+To use xdebug change the line `"docker.host:127.0.0.1"` in docker-compose.yml and replace 127.0.0.1 with your machine ip addres.
+If your IDE default port is not set to 5902 you should do that, too.
+
 # Code license
 
 You are free to use the code in this repository under the terms of the 0-clause BSD license. LICENSE contains a copy of this license.
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 5887cfa..dd28137 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ services:
             - ./logs/symfony:/var/www/symfony/var/logs:cached
         links:
             - db
+        extra_hosts:
+            - "docker.host:127.0.0.1"
     nginx:
         build: ./nginx
         ports:
diff --git a/php-fpm/Dockerfile b/php-fpm/Dockerfile
index 904a7ea..8eb1297 100644
--- a/php-fpm/Dockerfile
+++ b/php-fpm/Dockerfile
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ RUN apk add --update \
     php7-tokenizer \
     php7-session \
     php7-simplexml \
+    php7-xdebug \
     make \
     curl
 
@@ -35,10 +36,11 @@ RUN curl --insecure https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar -o /usr/bin/composer &
 
 ADD symfony.ini /etc/php7/php-fpm.d/
 ADD symfony.ini /etc/php7/cli/conf.d/
+ADD xdebug.ini  /etc/php7/conf.d/
 
 ADD symfony.pool.conf /etc/php7/php-fpm.d/
 
 CMD ["php-fpm7", "-F"]
 
 WORKDIR /var/www/symfony
-EXPOSE 9000
+EXPOSE 9000
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diff --git a/php-fpm/xdebug.ini b/php-fpm/xdebug.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..70a7ea9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/php-fpm/xdebug.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+zend_extension=xdebug.so
+
+[Xdebug]
+xdebug.remote_enable=true
+xdebug.remote_port=5902
+xdebug.remote_host=docker.host
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