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Magento 2 Display Error Enable Error Reporting Programmatically

March 17, 2022 The Online Helper

You can display error/enable error reporting in Magento 2 by using these methods,

Method 1: Rename pub/errors/local.xml.sample file
Method 2: Edit .htaccess file
Method 3: Edit app/bootstrap.php file

Method 1: Rename pub/errors/local.xml.sample file

Open the Magento root directory.
Open the pub/errors.
You will see a file in this directory whose name is local.xml.sample.
Rename the file from local.xml.sample to local.xml.
And flush/clear the Magento cache.

Method 2: Edit .htaccess file

Open the .htaccess of your Magento 2 site.
Add the following code in .htaccess file to display the error.

php_value display_errors on ## enable PHP's error display settings
php_value error_reporting -1 ## set error display to E_ALL

Open the terminal and access the root directory.

cd /path/to/your/magento/directory

To set the developer mode, run the below command.

php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

You can check the deployment by using this command.

php bin/magento deploy:mode:show

Clear/flush the Magento cache to check the result.

php bin/magento cache:clean

Method 3: Edit app/bootstrap.php file

Open your Magento root directory.
Open the app/bootstrap.php.
You will see a line at the top of the file.

#ini_set('display_errors', 1);

Update this line of code with the below code.

error_reporting(E_ALL); # Set Error Reporting as E_ALL (Report all PHP errors)
ini_set('display_errors', 1); # Un-commenting this line to enable PHP error display

Open the terminal and access the root directory.

cd /path/to/your/magento/directory

To set the developer mode, run the below command.

php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer

You can check the deployment by using this command.

php bin/magento deploy:mode:show

Clear/flush the Magento cache to check the result.

php bin/magento cache:clean

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