Okay, this is slowly getting annoying. I'm used to work with Apache Webservers and never had any of these problems. IIS seems to try to be intelligent - or whatever.
Here's my situation: My customer wants a PHP website and it is supposed to run on an Windows IIS webserver.
For my development environment I could use my Apache - but just to be sure I want to do it with IIS, too. So I set up a dev-server with Windows Vista, all the latest Updates and installed IIS. Everything fine!
I quickly found instructions on how to install PHP in IIS on some official Microsoft site. Modified php.ini - have been doing stuff like that for years on Linux/Apache machines.
So now I have a Server to run IIS on and my workstation which I use to develop, accessing the files on the server over network.
My first "phpinfo()" page - everything okay. Now I intentionally break the page by introducing a bug: All I get on my workstation is "Server Error 500". When I access the page directly on the server I see an PHP error message... Well, got that worked out with this serverfault.com question.
BUT: It still keeps annoying me: Now if there is an error all I get is JUST the error message. I don't see any of the other output of the script. In fact in Firefox I don't see anything at all in case of an error.
For example if I do this...
<?PHP $sql = 'THIS WON\'T WORK';echo $sql;$DB->exec($sql); // <- This causes an error?>all I get is
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function exec() on a non-object in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpinfo.php on line 4What I actually want is that it shows me the output of everything that happened before the error so that I can use that to fix my problem.
How do I get IIS (or PHP?) to show me everything? Error message AND context? Over the network?
Update
Okay, I may have a lead. When I go to my console and call my script manually via php-cgi.exe this is what I get:
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function exec() on a non-object in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpinfo.php on line 4X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.12Content-type: text/htmlTHIS WON'T WORK<br /><b>Fatal error</b>: Call to a member function exec() on a non-object in <b>C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpinfo.php</b> on line <b>4</b><br />I then tried to pipe the output to a files and figured out that the first two lines are piped to stderr and the rest goes to stdout (Read here for more info about that).
I can also see that what I get in my browser is the output to stderr, because it does not contain any HTML formatting.
I can now narrow my question down to this: I have a FastCGI PHP-CGI that outputs an error message to stderr and the page causing the error to stdout. It currently forwards stderr to the browser - how do I get it to use stdout instead?