Comments on: Re-enabling error reporting in MAMP

By: Jeger

Jeger — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:22:25 +0000

Thanks alot, i just moved to the apple platform on my laptop was confused for a minute why small php syntax errors would give me a 500 error.
thank you.

ps. Eli Sand, seriously? i understand you making a mistake when writing your first

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:29:15 +0000

Thanks handy info :)

By: Skar

Skar — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:04:46 +0000

Thanks! Finally I can see some errors – which is useful when developing locally :D

By: Eduardo Rosado

Eduardo Rosado — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:23:19 +0000

Thanks! during local development we do need error reporting enabled and your post at top of Google’s list was really useful to quickly solve this issue.

By: Bucky

Bucky — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:20:09 +0000

Thanks, that was really useful.

Just spent a few hours trying to work out a problem with my code (I’m a complete newb to this) and it didn’t even click that I wasn’t getting an error on MAMP until I dropped the file on to my hosting and saw an error there.

Now I can get back to my learning!

By: Brad Manderscheid

Brad Manderscheid — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:17:01 +0000

Thanks a ton! This has been bothering me for a long time now.

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