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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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.

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

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.

I also face the same issue, I have the following settings in my php.inni file

display_errors = On
error_reporting=E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~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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