I had a line - $autoload['libraries'] = array('database');
, in CI's autoload.php
. Because of this I was getting a blank page. When I removed the 'database'
, option then I started getting the output.
Now my question is not how to configure the database, but how to configure CI to speak its mind. When 'database'
was enabled all I got was a complete blank page. No error in php log, no error in Apache log, no error in CI log. In PHP I have set E_ALL
. In my CI config I have set log_threshold
to 4
, i.e. all messages should be logged. What more do I need to do?
It depends on your version of CI. For < 2.x edit the top level index.php and adjust the error_reporting function to use E_ALL"
error_reporting(E_ALL);
For >= 2.x edit the top level index.php and make sure ENVIRONMENT is set as:
define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');
which sets the error_reporting to E_ALL.
Create a .htaccess file in your webroot with the following content
php_flag display_startup_errors on
php_flag display_errors on
php_flag html_errors on
php_flag log_errors on
php_flag ignore_repeated_errors off
php_flag ignore_repeated_source off
php_flag report_memleaks on
php_flag track_errors on
php_value error_reporting -1
php_value log_errors_max_len 0
Hopefully that should enable your logs.
Make sure to set the values to off and reporting to 0 on your production server :)
I am not sure what was the real reason but I had a PHP installation with left-over php.ini file. Later I installed the full WAMP stack with its own PHP. When I deleted the leftover php.ini file from the previous installation then it started working as it should. It seems the PHP binaries in the new installing was using using the left-over php.ini which was in totally different directory; maybe because that directory was in environment PATH.