LOCALHOST AND SERVER CONFLICTS

taurus5_6

Hi... I usually encounter errors on my php pages everytime I upload them on my server. This errors do not appear though while im still coding it in my local machine. How can I avoid the errors (or see these errors while still in my localhost) so that I can save my time and effort and make it bug free before uploading to my server?

Big thanks.

Houdini

Well that might be because your localhost server is set up differently than the one on the internet. So you will have to see your PHP configuration on the net by running phpinfo() on it and also run phpinfo() on your local machine so what works on your local machine will also work on your internet site. Copy and paste the below script into your root directory of your localhost as well as your internet site. Name it info.php and run it on each server.

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Then if you are still having problems then post your problem code here in these forums. Please use the PHP BB Code tags to surround your code see my signature to see how.

bradgrafelman

taurus5_6 wrote:
errors do not appear though while im still coding it in my local machine

Sounds like your "local machine" is your development environment yet you only see errors in the production environment (your "server"). Looks like things are backwards - look at changing error_reporting and display_errors on both servers (manual page here).

Normally, you don't display errors on the production server while doing the opposite on your development server. IMO your development server should have error_reporting set to E_ALL (or 'E_ALL | E_STRICT' depending on your PHP version).

MarkR

Are we to assume that your local machine is running the same OS, Web server and version of PHP as the production server, with the same filesystem layout etc?

If it isn't, perhaps the errors are caused by one of those being different. Developing on a different OS, web server or PHP version is not recommended. Ideally use the exact same build of PHP on dev.

Your error handling code should enable errors which happen in dev and production to be recorded in a log file, and appropriate output given to the user (which in production means NOT outputting the error).

I recommend always having error_reporting(E_ALL), because even notices usually indicate a problem and must cause your script to terminate immediately to avoid later problems. Your error handler should generate a stack trace, log it somewhere and exit cleanly.

Mark

taurus5_6

MarkR wrote:
Are we to assume that your local machine is running the same OS, Web server and version of PHP as the production server, with the same filesystem layout etc?

If it isn't, perhaps the errors are caused by one of those being different. Developing on a different OS, web server or PHP version is not recommended. Ideally use the exact same build of PHP on dev.

Your error handling code should enable errors which happen in dev and production to be recorded in a log file, and appropriate output given to the user (which in production means NOT outputting the error).

I recommend always having error_reporting(E_ALL), because even notices usually indicate a problem and must cause your script to terminate immediately to avoid later problems. Your error handler should generate a stack trace, log it somewhere and exit cleanly.

Mark

I'm afraid yes... Im using windows and my server is using linux.

My local machine uses PHP version 4.3.4 while my server's PHP is version 4.3.9
Although both are using Apache 2.0 handler.

Unfortunately, Im a newbie in php and im used to using windows... although I have long been wanting to use linux. I attempted to install a new version of php by downloading it but was having a problem in doing it.

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