I followed the instructions here: https://xdebug.org/docs/all_settings#file_link_format

After adding the information to the registry and creating the batch file as advertised and clicking on the stack trace links I get an error that the file cannot be found. (picture attached)

I am not using nircmd

The output of the batch file is as follows

C:\WINDOWS\system32>setlocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion

C:\WINDOWS\system32>set NETBEANS="C:\Program Files\NetBeans-12.6\netbeans\bin\netbeans64.exe"

C:\WINDOWS\system32>set FILE=netbeans://open/?f=D:%5Cwebsites%5Chtdocs%5Cprojects%5Cqwcrm%5Csrc%5Ccache%5Csmarty%5Ccompile%5Cd0d7cab3fc90044dd0b29b254a87eedb88470029_0.file.financial.tpl.php:457

C:\WINDOWS\system32>"C:\Program Files\NetBeans-12.6\netbeans\bin\netbeans64.exe" --nosplash --console suppress --open "D:%5Cwebsites%5Chtdocs%5Cprojects%5Cqwcrm%5Csrc%5Ccache%5Csmarty%5Ccompile%5Cd0d7cab3fc90044dd0b29b254a87eedb88470029_0.file.financial.tpl.php:457"

My version of netbeans is different to the instructions but this is not causing any issue.

If you look at the command that opens the link in netbeans (the last one) you can see that instead of directories separated by slashes they are being separated by the equivalent HTML entity which is %5C

I have the same issue with Firefox 103.0 (64-bit) and chrome 103.0.5060.134

If I manually take that last link and swap all of the %5C to slashes and run the relevant file opens up in netbeans

So the issue is clearly for some reason the link to the file is being passed with HTML entities and not slashes.

My Solution/Workaround is in additional information below