PHP doesn't display any error

Question

I don't get any PHP error, just get a white page on Firefox, and

Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://example.com/pruebas/prov.php. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly

on Chrome.

This is the code:

if (!ini_get('display_errors')) {
   ini_set('display_errors', 1);
}
echo "hola"
echo "hola2";

I intentionally made mistake in the echo "hola" (there's no ';').

I also tried adding to the end of my .htaccess file -> suPHP_ConfigPath /home/username/public_html replacing username with my current username, and then I created a php.ini in public_html with "display_errors = on;". But I'm still not able to get any PHP error.

Answer 1

Your script is dying due to the syntax error before it ever executes, so the ini_set() call is never executed and never takes effect. You'd have to change the setting in the appropriate php.ini.

The actual error message may be in a log file somewhere. Try Apache's error_log, or see if PHP's logging somewhere else.

Answer 2

Make sure that you also have the appropriate error_reporting ini value set as well. You can find more information on PHP.net

Set the error reporting level. The parameter is either an integer representing a bit field, or named constants. The error_reporting levels and constants are described in Predefined Constants, and in php.ini. To set at runtime, use the error_reporting() function. See also the display_errors directive.

In PHP 4 and PHP 5 the default value is E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE. This setting does not show E_NOTICE level errors. You may want to show them during development.

Source

Answer 3

Make sure the display_errors is set to on on your php.ini file.