PHP not displaying errors even though display errors On

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I have a Ubuntu server running Apache2 with PHP 5  In the php ini I set display errors    On and error reporting    E ALL   E STRICT  but PHP is still not displaying error messages  I m also using Apache virtual hosts  Also  what is the most strict error reporting PHP5 3 has to offer  I want my code to as up-to-date and future-proof as possible

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Just want to add another pitfall here in case someone finds this question with a problem similar to mine.

When you are using Chrome (Or Chromium) and PHP triggers an error in PHP code which is located inside of a HTML attribute then Chrome removes the whole HTML element so you can't see the PHP error in your browser.

Here is an example:

<p>
  <a href="<?=missingFunc()?>">test</a>
</p>

When calling this code in Chrome you only get a HTML document with the starting <p> tag. The rest is missing. No error message and no other HTML code after this <p>. This is not a PHP issue. When you open this page in Firefox then you can see the error message (When viewing the HTML code). So this is a Chrome issue.

Don't know if there is a workaround somewhere. When this happens to you then you have to test the page in Firefox or check the Apache error log.

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I know this thread is old but I just solved a similar problem with my Ubuntu server and thought I would add a note here to help others as this thread was first page in Google for the topic of PHP not displaying errors   I tried several configuration settings for the error reporting value in php ini  From E ALL   E STRICT to E ALL  amp  E NOTICE and none worked  I was not getting any syntax errors displayed in the browser  which is rather annoying on a development server   After changing the error reporting setting to  E ALL  it all started working  Not sure if it is an Ubuntu Oneric specific issue but after restarting Apache errors started showing in the HTML pages the server was serving  Seems the extra options confusing things and all error reporting stops  HTH somone else

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I had the same problem but I used ini set  display errors    1    inside the faulty script itself so it never fires on fatal   syntax errors  Finally I solved it by adding this to my  htaccess   php value auto prepend file  usr www  YOUR PATH  display errors php   display errors php    lt  php ini set  display errors   1   error reporting -1     gt    By that I was not forced to change the php ini  use it for specific subfolders and could easily disable it again

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Though this thread is old but still  I feel I should post a good answer from this stackoverflow answer   ini set  display errors   1   ini set  display startup errors   1   error reporting E ALL     This sure saved me after hours of trying to get things to work  I hope this helps someone

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I just experienced this same problem and it turned out that my problem was not in the php ini files  but simply  that I was starting the apache server as a regular user  As soon as i did a  sudo  etc init d apache2 restart   my errors were shown

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For me I solved it by deleting the file of php errors txt in the relative folder  Then the file is created automatically again when the code runs next time  and with the errors printed this time

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You also need to make sure you have your php ini file include the following set or errors will go only to the log that is set by default or specified in the virtual host s configuration   display errors   On   The php ini file is where base settings for all PHP on your server  however these can easily be overridden and altered any place in the PHP code and effect everything following that change  A good check is to add the display errors directive to your php ini file   If you don t see an error  but one is being logged  insert this at the top of the file causing the error   ini set  display errors   1   error reporting E ALL     If this works then something earlier in your code is disabling error display

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Check the error reporting flag  must be E ALL  but in some release of Plesk there are quotes   E ALL   instead of  E ALL   I solved this issue deleting the quotes     in php ini   from this   error reporting    E ALL    to this   error reporting   E ALL

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I had the same problem with Apache and PHP 5 5  In php ini  I had the following lines   error reporting E ALL  amp   E NOTICE  amp   E DEPRECATED  amp   E STRICT display errors Off   instead of the following   error reporting E ALL  amp   E NOTICE  amp   E DEPRECATED  amp   E STRICT display errors Off    the  sign was missing

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When running PHP on windows with ISS there are some configuration settings in ISS that need to be set to prevent generic default pages from being shown   1  Double click on FastCGISettings  click on PHP then Edit  Set StandardErrorMode to ReturnStdErrLn500   StandardErrorMode  2  Go the the site  double click on the Error Pages  click on the 500 status  click Edit Feature Settings  Change Error Responses to Detailed Errors  click ok  Change Error Responses to Detailed Errors

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I have encountered also the problem  Finally I found the solution  I am using UBUNTU 16 04 LTS   1  Open the  ect php 7 0 apache2 php ini file  under the  etc php one might have different version of PHP but apache2 php ini will be under the version file   find ERROR HANDLING AND LOGGING section and set the following value  display error   On  error reporting   E ALL    NOTE - Under the QUICK REFERENCE section also one can find these values directives but don t change there just change in Section I told   2  Restart Apache server sudo systemctl restart apache2

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I also face the same issue  I have the following settings in my php inni file  display errors   On error reporting E ALL  amp   E DEPRECATED  amp   E STRICT   But still  PHP errors are not displaying on the webpage  I just restart my apache server and this problem was fixed

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Make sure the php ini that you re modifying is on the  etc php5 apache2 folder  or else it won t have any efect

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Although this is old post    i had similar situation that gave me headache   Finally  i figured that i was including sub pages in index php with   include           hides all errors even if display errors is ON

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I had the same issue and finally solved it  My mistake was that I tried to change  etc php5 cli php ini  but then I found another php ini here   etc php5 apache2 php ini  changed display errors   On  restarted the web-server and it worked  May be it would be helpful for someone absent-minded like me

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I had the same problem on my virtual server with Parallels Plesk Panel 10 4 4  The solution was  thanks to Zappa for the idea  setting error reporting value to 32767 instead of E ALL  In Plesk  Home   Subscriptions    Select domain    Customize   PHP Settings   error reporting - Enter custom value - 32767

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When you update the configuration in the php ini file  you might have to restart apache   Try running apachectl restart or apache2ctl restart  or something like that   Also  in you ini file  make sure you have display errors   on  but only in a development environment  never in a production machine   Also  the strictest error reporting is exactly what you have cited  E ALL   E STRICT   You can find more information on error levels at the php docs

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