On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Ghodmode <ghodmode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd like to use PHP to intentionally generate an "Error 500 Internal
> Server Error".
>
> Here's the problem. My site has this error intermittently and I'd
> like to monitor the error log to figure out the problem.
> Unfortunately, I don't get to see the actual Apache error log and my
> hosting provider's error reporting system isn't working. Customer
> support just sends me canned responses stating that everything's fine
> and they can't reproduce the error, so I'd like to create a
> reproducible internal server error so that they can see that it's not
> showing up in the error log.
>
> I know that I can mess up something in the .htaccess file, but that
> would break the whole site. I don't want to do that.
>
> I know I could use header("HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error"), but
> that means I would also have to provide the content of the Error 500
> page. I want to kick off they're internal server error page. They
> don't give me to option to create one of my own.
>
> I'm using GoDaddy.
>
> Can someone suggest some invalid PHP code that should generate an
> internal server error?
>
> Thank you.
>
> One way would be, write a php extension and perform segfaults there.
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