Remove weird looking orange PHP errors on Debian

Question

I set up a Debian virtual machine for local development, but funny enough any kind of PHP errors are displayed in an (too me) unusual design, with a orange table layout... How can I make PHP display errors the with the "traditional" design?

Update (added system explanation and screenshot): It's Debian running on a virtual machine on my Mac using VirtualBox.

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It'd help if you post a screenshot of the "orange table layout" you're seeing. — Amal Murali, Feb 28 '14 at 11:54
@Nishant "... **Debian** virtual machine ...". Debian is Linux — Bojangles, Feb 28 '14 at 11:55
@NishantSolanki he's talking about **Debian virtual machine**, where WAMP or XAMPP are not applicable — oxfn, Feb 28 '14 at 11:56
@preyz This sounds like Xdebug is enabled in your PHP config. Have a look through your configuration files for `extension=xdebug.so` and comment the respective lines out, or change `display_errors` to `Off` — Bojangles, Feb 28 '14 at 11:56
This question appears to be off-topic because it is about configuring PHP on Debian and not about programming. — André Laszlo, Feb 28 '14 at 11:57
Seems like this is not default Debian environment. Tell us more or ask it on serverfault.com (where you'll be asked for more info too) — oxfn, Feb 28 '14 at 11:59
@NishantSolanki Disabling error reporting completely is not the right answer. — sevenseacat, Feb 28 '14 at 12:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '14 at 12:35

Based on the comment from Bojangles I investigated and found xdebug to be enabled. Disabling it removed the "orange" error output, and I now get "normal" error display.

I disabled it by removing the link to include the xdebug extension in /etc/php5/conf.d

Remove weird looking orange PHP errors on Debian

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