MAMP Config help, display PHP errors

Question

I am running the latest version of MAMP on Snow Leopard.

My php.ini file has been configured to display errors. display_errors = on. The phpinfo(); page displays the status of error reporting, it is on. I have restarted my web server several times.

I've searched through Google, and I cannot find any similar problem. Everyone just says to do exactly what I have done, but it is not working. The pages will just remain blank, (with no reporting), if I intentionally place errors.

Any thoughts as to what the problem may be?

Answer 1

In addition to the display_errors directive, which has to be set to On, you might have to configure error_reporting.

For instance, you can use this in your php.ini file :

error_reporting = E_ALL

Another should, useful to test, might be to place this kind of portion of PHP code at the beginning of your script :

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

This is useful when you don't have access to php.ini and/or just want to test quickly, without having to restart the webserver.

As a sidenote, when it comes to displaying errors, the Xdebug extension is really great : when it's installed/enabled/configured, instead of just having an error message, you'll get the full stack-trace, which is much more useful ;-)

Answer 2

There might have a .htaccess file in a directory that overrides the display_errors setting set in php.ini. From your post I assume you didn't explicitly add this but a few frameworks do this by default so might be added that way. Look for a line like this in your .htaccess file:

php_value display_errors 0

and change the value to 1.

Answer 3

Turns out there were several directory issues. Thanks guys.

My development directory was changed from the assigned directory during the install.