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Why would it not automatically be enabled?
i.e. What are the disadvantages to enabling debugging in the config file? There must be some, otherwise surely it would be enabled by default.
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Security and performance reasons – it is easy to forget to do this on a live web server, which is not a good idea.
Running in debug mode is much slower than in release mode. It also exposes more information in the YSOD. It is better to be secure by default than the alternative…