script with errors does not do anything

[julianb]

I am running PHP Version "5.3.5-1ubuntu5" on ubuntu natty.

 

my php script does not output any errors - if i make a mistake such as a closing brace } in the wrong place or a missing semicolon, the server responds with http error 500

 

"The website encountered an error while retrieving http://localhost/index.php. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly."

 

I want it to do the normal error reporting - any idea why i'm not getting any error messages, and what i can do about it?

[txmedic03]

Set display_errors = On in your php.ini file. This is not recommended for production, but for development it is fine. Alternatively you can do:

tail /var/log/apache2/error.log

This will show you the last few lines of your error log file (the most recent error messages).