Error 500 on a working docker container

Question

I'm using a slimframwork 3 app on laradock (nginx, mariadb, phpfpm, php 5.6) so I made a stupid syntax error:

$view->addExtension(new \Slim\Views\TwigExtension(
$container->router,
$container->request->getUri(),
));

the comma after the getUri() was giving me error 500 on chrome and that was frustration so I tried my app on wamp on windows and I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in C:\wamp64\www\app\bootstrap\app.php on line 21

why was I having a 500 error with no clue of what was wrong.

P.S. I've set displayErrorDetails to true

Locution

The PHP environment in your docker container is not set to display errors. It appears to be in more of a production mode – Elenor

all I have done is setup the .env with php 5.6 and my application path then docker-compose up -d nginx mariadb – Locution

Have you tried viewing the log files? – Elenor

no, but all I want is to have a more verbose error details. – Locution

You're right Phil, I've checked my php-fpm logs and found this: 172.20.0.6 - 26/Oct/2017:00:39:31 +0000 "GET /index.php" 500 [26-Oct-2017 00:39:31] WARNING: [pool www] child 8 said into stderr: "NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in /var/www/bootstrap/app.php on line 21" – Locution

but how can I display this on chrome? – Locution

Change display_errors to On – Elenor

Awesome man, its working. just post your answer so I can vote for you. – Locution

I'm not particularly familiar with the laradock configuration. You should probably write what you did in an answer to this question. – Elenor

Answer 1

Shoutout to Phil who solved this issue.

So when you use laradock and you come to a situation like this and you want more specific details about the error, you can either check your php-fpm container logs with:

docker logs -f <your container>

or set the "display_errors=On" on laradock/php-fpm/laravel.ini and you'll see your error message on your browser instead of error 500.

Locution