XF 2.2 Disabling Debug Mode (reloading config.php)

[jmyres]

Several months ago we completed a major upgrade from Xenforo 1.4 to 2.2. For whatever reason, debug mode was enabled after the upgrade and has been enabled on our live site ever since. I am now learning that's not good. I have changed the debug variable to 'false" in the /src/config.php file, but debug mode is still active.

Do I need to reboot our server to get config.php to reload or is there a less invasive way?

Also, what liabilities have we exposed ourselves to by having debug mode enabled on a live site?

Thanks for any advice or input.

 

[Deleted member 184953]

Debug mode is automatically activated with Developer mode too.
Check your config.php to see if dev mode is not activated.

$config['development']['enabled'] = true;

If so, turn it to false or comment it

#$config['development']['enabled'] = true;

 

[jmyres]

Thank you for the reply. With quite a bit of help from another member here, we discovered that changing...

$config['debug'] = 'false';

to....

$config['debug'] = false;

...by removing the ' ' around the false variable in config.php solved the issue. That, plus restarting the php-fpm service in Web Hosting Manager on our VPS to get php to re-load our config was what finally disabled debug mode.

 

[Paul B]

The ' ' should never have been there in the first place.

However, the default for that option is false, so just remove the line completely.

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