debugging on the server

I am using phpStorm and have developed my entire app with it.  I have uploaded the code to AWS. I can get it to start up fine by typing in the ipaddressofserver/sub_crud. However when I try to login to my app I get:

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined property: Users::$user
Filename: controllers/Users.php
Line Number: 84
Backtrace:
File: /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sub_crud/application/controllers/Users.php
Line: 84
Function: _error_handler
File: /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sub_crud/index.php
Line: 316
Function: require_once

This makes no sense to me since there is no mention of $user anywhere in that module! The code on line 84 is:
$checkLogin = $this->user->getRows($con);

Regardless, I think that for me to move ahead I will need to debug the code on the remote server, just so I can see what is going on. So I am trying to set up remote debugging. I have phpStorm on my PC and Putty with an ssh tunnel. I set the xdebug port in phpStorm to 8888 since that is the port for the tunnel (that Bitnami suggests). I am not getting any connection back to my debugger when I start up my app. 

Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? 

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Oh yeah, below the error above, on the same screen I get:

( ! ) Fatal error: Call to a member function getRows() on null in /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sub_crud/application/controllers/Users.php on line 84
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0001 247864 {main}( ) .../index.php:0
2 0.0002 250744 require_once( '/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sub_crud/system/core/CodeIgniter.php' ) .../index.php:316
3 0.0034 877320 call_user_func_array:{/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/sub_crud/system/core/CodeIgniter.php:532} ( ) .../CodeIgniter.php:532
4 0.0034 878112 Users->login( ) .../CodeIgniter.php:532
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Error

Message: Call to a member function getRows() on null

Filename: controllers/Users.php

Line Number: 84

Backtrace:

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It sounds like your User model is not being properly loaded, which could stem from a database configuration problem.

Interesting. That makes more sense. I do have a model called User.php which is involved in the login. But how would I go about tracking that down? Perhaps I need to take a look at database.php?

This is my $db

$db['default'] = array(
   'dsn'  => '',
   'hostname' => 'localhost',
   'username' => 'root',
   'password' => 'xxxxxxxxxx',
   'database' => 'substantiator',
   'dbdriver' => 'mysqli',
   'dbprefix' => '',
   'pconnect' => FALSE,
   'db_debug' => (ENVIRONMENT !== 'production'),
   'cache_on' => FALSE,
   'cachedir' => '',
   'char_set' => 'utf8',
   'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci',
   'swap_pre' => '',
   'encrypt' => FALSE,
   'compress' => FALSE,
   'stricton' => FALSE,
   'failover' => array(),
   'save_queries' => TRUE
);

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I am getting this error on the server version of my code. Anyone know what this is?

PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Core Warning

Message: Cannot open 'C:\xampp\php\extras\browscap.ini' for reading

Filename: Unknown

Line Number: 0

Backtrace:

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@richb201,

You might need to check the permissions of the file.

Well I decided to go back to the Windows version (that runs on my local Apache) and I am having the same problem. This is the line that is failing:

               $checkLogin = $this->user->getRows($con);

The value of $con in my debugger is:
$con = {array}[2]
   returnType="single"
   conditions= {array}[3]
       email="[email protected]"
       password="y...."
       status="1"
The call to getRows() is failing with an error of severity 8. It says "Undefined property: Users::$user"

Does anyone know why this would be failing or what severity 8 means? This code has been working for a while. Perhaps it was an accidental change to the php.ini?

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I think the problem has been found. The call should have been

$checkLogin = $this->User->getRows($con);

I guess this is the Windows vs Linux capitalization "thing".

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