Re: PHP Error logging

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 19:33, Jimmy Stewpot <mailers@oranged.to> wrote: > Hello, > > I currently have a strange issue where we are seeing 'random errors' being displayed > to end users. What I find most interesting is that in the php.ini file we have the following error > settings. > > error_reporting  =  E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE > display_errors = Off > display_startup_errors = Off > log_errors = On > log_errors_max_len = 1024 > ignore_repeated_errors = Off > track_errors = Off > > I thought that if we had dislay_errors = Off then end users should never see errors displayed > on the web page. However at apparently random times we do still see errors being reported, its not > consistent at all. To give a better idea of the problem we have 8 web servers, they all run an > identical copy of the site which is stored on a common netapp nfs filer. At apparently random times > we see that 1 out of 8 servers will reported strange errors like 'use of undefined > constant' or 'Undefined variable'. What's most strange about these errors is > that if the code was faulty wouldn't we expect to see the errors on all web servers? and > secondly wouldn't we expect to see the errors constantly rather than at apparently random > intervals? > > The php.ini files have a modify time of mid 2010 and yet this problem has only started in the > last few weeks. Has anyone else experienced similar problems in the past and if so what was the root > cause? Sounds like someone added either ini_set('display_errors','On') in the script being called or an include, added a local php.ini file to the directory (or a parent directory), or added a php_flag to .htaccess in the directory (or a parent). Try checking into those possibilities. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/