How can I make PHP display the error instead of giving me 500 Internal Server Error [duplicate]

Answer 1

Be careful to check if

display_errors

or

error_reporting

is active (not a comment) somewhere else in the ini file.

My development server refused to display errors after upgrade to Kubuntu 16.04 - I had checked php.ini numerous times ... turned out that there was a diplay_errors = off; about 100 lines below my

display_errors = on;

So remember the last one counts!