PHP FPM returns HTTP 500 for all PHP errors

Question

I am running nginx with PHP-FPM. My nginx configuration for handling php files looks like this:

location  ~ \.php$ {             set $php_root /home/me/www;             fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;             fastcgi_index  index.php;             fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $php_root$fastcgi_script_name;             include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;         } 

Now, I have a simple php file like this:

<?php      ech "asd"      asd"" ?> 

Yes, with an obvious error. When I try accessing the php file, instead of tracing a syntax error, I always get a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error.I tried using error_reporting(-1); but still it always returns HTTP 500. How do I get PHP to print the exact error instead of returning a generic HTTP 500?

Answer 1

Try to find the following line in your php.ini:

 display_errors = Off 

then make it on

Answer 2

To post a more complete answer, I had used a production version of php.ini which has display_errors = Off. Instead of turning it on globally, what I do now is, for files which I need error reporting on, I use ini_set('display_errors', 'On'); at the beginning of the file.