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