Question

I came across an issue today, that my PHP script would send a server error 500 upon finishing (on apache). The code was something like:

//many stuff here that work
echo "It reached here";
exit;

and I was always reaching the point before the exit; command. Doing a google search, I came across this post, which suggested turning on display_errors. I did it and the 500 error went away.

So I wanted to ask, does anyone have an explanation on why this happens? This SO post describes a similar case, but there are no explanations.

As always, thanks in advance

Answer 1

It appears that the code generated a parse error inside an eval() function in a loop. This kind of error does not break code execution but does produce a 500 error