Comments on: Re-enabling error reporting in MAMP

By: rightmost

rightmost — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:06:05 +0000

Thank you, this has been very helpful! Debugging is now heaps easier now that I can actually *see* what the error is :D

By: Constant Meiring

Constant Meiring — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:40:37 +0000

/sigh/ Eli at the top seems to be quite daft. Thanks for the tip. I just did a search because I already enabled E_ALL with no avail. Seems I didn’t know about display_errors. :)

By: vlado

vlado — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:01:38 +0000

thanks a lot man – really nice tip!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:51:34 +0000

Thanks for the tip. One of those little things that saved a few hrs of confusing frustration.

This should come enabled on a testing server, in my book!

By: Pieter

Pieter — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:38:26 +0000

Thank you for this. I’ve recently made the switch from PC to Mac and also changed from XAMPP to MAMP in the process. This post was incredibly helpful.

By: Kit MacAllister

Kit MacAllister — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:30:32 +0000

Thanks, this was very useful. It’s so frustrating when the entire site disappears because of a missing semi-colon.

By: yc

yc — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:58:03 +0000

Awesome! Thanks. The lack of errors was making MAMP development impossible.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:02:22 +0000

Many thanks! Greetings from NYC!

By: Joe Elliott

Joe Elliott — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:42:21 +0000

For those on MAMP Pro, a even more simple solution:

Click on Server, then PHP… from there you get a fancy checkbox error selection.

Thanks for the post! I was looking to figure out how to do it, did it first with your post, then explored MAMP more…

By: Zack

Zack — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:38:18 +0000

Thanks man I owe you a beer!

By: viopico

viopico — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:15:13 +0000

Thank you very much^^

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:37:33 +0000

Nice one, Jamie.

This post saved a good few hours of frustration.

Thanks very much.

By: Dan Nicholls

Dan Nicholls — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:11:36 +0000

Thanks for this, a big help when developing and when you’re a total newbie to Mac and therefore a total newbie to MAMP!

By: Neptúnus Hirt

Neptúnus Hirt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:06:27 +0000

Great, thanks for the information.

One note, however, for those that don’t know: If you’re using MAMP Pro, you need to navigate to the MAMP Pro application, then do a “Show Package Contents” on it to find the configuration files.
I’ve had some trouble figuring that out, since I assumed that MAMP Pro accessed all the same files as MAMP, but simply had more configuration options.

By: bujisky

bujisky — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:48:20 +0000

thanks

By: Pinto

Pinto — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:44:06 +0000

Thanks to this post, works for me too.
I think Eli Sand uses IIS.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:14:41 +0000

Thanks mate! Its always nice to google and find REAL usefull info, you saved me a couple minutes :)
Cheers!

By: Rui Covelo

Rui Covelo — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:42:13 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I lost a few minutes of my day until I found your post. It really doesn’t make sense to be off by default.

By: abc@abc.com

abc@abc.com — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:07:00 +0000

Dear Eli Sand

Would publish your site by xampp? If not then you should do know that most web developers don’t publish their site with xampp or mamp because they use them to develop site locally and since nobody could write perfect codes without errors, they normally turn display error on. You need that for debugging not for your visitors… Your visitors will see your site from another server which normally don’t came as a package like xampp or mamp. So stop, showing off, while other people are trying to share their knowledge and make the net a better net.

A reader who happens to read your comments

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:00:30 +0000

Thanks! Other sites mentioned first part about E_ALL, but didn’t mention Line 277 display_errors to “On.” Thanks for being thorough!

By: simon

simon — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:32:44 +0000

Works for me. Thanks.

By: Mash

Mash — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:33:35 +0000

Thanks Jamie.

Peter you sound like a wanker. No-one cares about your ‘expert’ abilities except you. I bet you like to plaster W3C compliant logos all over your websites to tell the world you know about standards rather than just getting on with it.

Anyone that has had to set-up a mac for local dev knows what a timesaver MAMP is.
Apache, MySQL, PHP with phpMyAdmin and SQLlite as a one-click install bundle – bloody great – you can configure the stack anyway you want after that – such as tweaking php.ini to control your degree of error reporting as this post suggests.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:03:44 +0000

Thank you! This was so frustrating.

By: Joachim

Joachim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:18:10 +0000

Thanks for the info!
Was getting fed up with the White Screen of Death…

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