PHP displays blank white page even with all error reporting enabled
- by Andy Shinn
I am trying to debug a broken page in a Drupal application and am having a hard time getting PHP to spit anything useful out. I have the following set:
error_reporting = E_ALL
display_errors = On
display_startup_errors = On
log_errors = On
error_log = /var/log/php/php_error.log
I have a file showing me phpinfo() which confirms these variables are set correctly for the environment. I have increased memory_limit to 256M (which should be more than enough). Yet, the only indication I get is a status 500 code in the apache access log and a blank white page from PHP.
The Apache virtual host has LogLevel set to debug and the error log only outputs:
[Sat Jun 16 20:03:03 2012] [debug] mod_deflate.c(615): [client 173.8.175.217] Zlib: Compressed 0 to 2 : URL /index.php, referer: http://ec2-174-129-192-237.compute-1.amazonaws.com/admin/reports/updates
[Sat Jun 16 20:03:03 2012] [error] [client 173.8.175.217] File does not exist: /var/www/favicon.ico
[Sat Jun 16 20:03:03 2012] [debug] mod_deflate.c(615): [client 173.8.175.217] Zlib: Compressed 42 to 44 : URL /favicon.ico
The PHP error log outputs nothing at all. kernel and syslog show nothing related to Apache or PHP. I have also tried installing suphp and checking its log just confirms the user is executing correctly:
[Sat Jun 16 20:02:59 2012] [info] Executing "/var/www/index.php" as UID 1000, GID 1000
[Sat Jun 16 20:05:03 2012] [info] Executing "/var/www/index.php" as UID 1000, GID 1000
This is on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 with the following PHP modules:
ii php5 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)
ii php5-cgi 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
ii php5-cli 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.1 command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language
ii php5-common 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.1 Common files for packages built from the php5 source
ii php5-curl 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.1 CURL module for php5
ii php5-gd 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.1 GD module for php5
ii php5-mysql 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.1 MySQL module for php5
So, what am I missing here? Why no error reporting?