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"Turn display_errors off" is a good answer for a production website. You will get problems with headers and cookies, if notices are printed before headers are sent. You might also divulge information about your stack to users.

For a development and staging website you do want notices and warnings displayed. For a production website possibly only when testing something.

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> For a development and staging website you do want notices and warnings displayed.

Just SSH in and tail the log. Dealing with unexpected output from errors clobbering your headers isn't worth the trouble.

You can also try something like FirePHP [0] if you need the errors in the context of the current page.

[0]: http://www.firephp.org/

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