The default setting of PHP under Ubuntu is not to display error messages. If the program makes an error, it will display an "error message that cannot process this request", which is very inconvenient in a development environment.
In fact, we only need to edit the apache configuration file
1. My apache configuration file directory is /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Add the following two lines at the end
php_flag display_errors on
php_value error_reporting 2039
2. Restart apache
sudo service apache2 restart
This completes the display of the error message.
Note: If it still doesn’t work, change the configuration under php.ini (I haven’t changed it, but it can be displayed, because the code added above is already enabled)
sudo vim /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini
Search for display_errors. The default is display_errors=Off. Change it to display_errors=On. Save and exit and restart apache2.