System Info Says Display Error ON, But set to OFF in PHP ini

[manofbronze]

I am new to Joomla, but getting educated quickly.

I am trying to tighten up security on our new site and have run across an interesting problem. Despite setting the value "display_errors = Off" in my PHP.ini file, the System Info in Joomla Admin shows the value to be "Display Errors ON". Other values that I have set in the PHP.INI file are being correctly displayed (and updated when I change them) but not "display_errors".

Is it possible some other ini file is overriding this setting?

I am running PHP 5.4.2., Joomla 3.4.5 on Windows 2012 R2 with IIS 8.5.

[itoctopus]

Have you restarted Apache after changing the php.ini file? Also, it is very possible that this value is overridden somewhere else, either with a local .user.ini file or with a local php.ini file.

[manofbronze]

Have you restarted Apache after changing the php.ini file? Also, it is very possible that this value is overridden somewhere else, either with a local .user.ini file or with a local php.ini file.

Thanks for the VERY quick response itoctopus!
Not Apache, but IIS and Yes, I did restart the service following each change.

Ultimately, I found the culprit. It was the setting in system\global configuration\server\error reporting. the value was set to "simple". Setting this to "none" resulted in "display errors" being correctly set to "off" when viewed under the php settings on the system information page.

Again, many thanks for getting right on this.

[manofbronze]

Issue resolved by correcting the system\global configuration\server\error reporting setting.

[toivo]

If you select 'none', no errors get logged, which may not be what you want. Select 'System Default' in System - Global Configuration - Server - Server Settings - Error Reporting. Then the settings from the php.ini file, the 'master' values, will control the error reporting.