Re: PHP5.2.4 setup problems....

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Bryan C wrote:

To: php-install@lists.php.net From: Bryan C <bac512@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] PHP5.2.4 setup problems.... yes, 2.2.6 is the version I'm using (I just checked.. sorry about that :) ) is there any way to turn on a debug log or any kind of log for php? the apache error.log says it configured it, but never says weither it's actually running it or not....

On Fedora Linux: the php error log needs to be set to: rw-rw-rw- root root php_error_log otherwise php cannot write to the error_log file. If php cannot write to it's own error_log file, then it will write it's output into the apache error_log file. You also need to set the following in php.ini, to tell php where to write it's errors to: from my php.ini file: ;=========================================================================== ; Error Reporting and Logging ; Print out errors (as a part of the output). For ; production web sites, ; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and ; use error logging ; instead (see below). Also set in live directory containers ; in /etc/sites.cfg ; display_errors = ON ; enables startup errors (such as php.ini syntax errors) to ; be output ; display_startup_errors = OFF ; Log errors into a log file (server-specific log, stderr, ; or error_log (below) ; As stated above, you're strongly advised to use error ; logging in place of ; error displaying on production web sites. ; Set this to ON or 1, to enable logging to the specific ; file in error_log below. ; log_errors = ON ; Log errors to a specified filename or syslog ; syslog errors - (Event Log on NT, not valid in Windows ; 95). error_log = /var/log/apache-2.2.0/php_error_log ; Disable the inclusion of HTML tags in error messages. html_errors = ON ; Store the last error/warning message in $php_errormsg ; (boolean). track_errors = OFF ; String to output before an error message. error_prepend_string = "<font color=0000FF>" ; String to output after an error message. error_append_string = "</font>" ;Show all errors and warnings but not run-time notices ;error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE ;Show all errors and warnings, including php coding suggestions error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT ; error_reporting is a bit-field. Add the values of the ; error reporting levels ; to get to the required error reporting level you need. ;

; E_ALL             - All errors and warnings
; E_ERROR           - fatal run-time errors
; E_WARNING         - run-time warnings (non-fatal errors)
; E_PARSE           - compile-time parse errors
; E_NOTICE          - run-time notices (these are warnings ; which often result from a bug in your code, but it's ; possible that it was intentional (e.g., using an ; uninitialized variable and relying on the fact it's automatically ; initialized to an empty string)

;

; E_CORE_ERROR      - fatal errors that occur during PHP's ; initial startup
; E_CORE_WARNING    - warnings (non-fatal errors) that occur ; during PHP's
;                     initial startup

; E_COMPILE_ERROR - fatal compile-time errors ; E_COMPILE_WARNING - compile-time warnings (non-fatal ; errors)

; E_USER_ERROR      - user-generated error message
; E_USER_WARNING    - user-generated warning message
; E_USER_NOTICE     - user-generated notice message
; E_STRICT          - new in php 5

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