PHP CLI won't log errors

Question

PHP currently will not log errors produced from the command line.

I have :

log_errors = On
error_log = /var/log/php_errors.log

in

Answer 1

as a diagnostic you can attempt to force a write to the error log this way.

php -c /etc/php5/cli/php.ini -r " error_log('test 123'); "

you should now see test 123 in your log

tail /var/log/php_errors.log