500 with simple syntax errors...

[eluser]kb1ibh[/eluser]
Whenever im working on a site in Codeigniter i create a new Vmware Virtual Machine, install debian, apache2, mysql-server, and execute a2enmod rewrite for .htaccess mod-rewrite... i've got a standard copy of CI that i use that has all my defaults setup already (configs, db, etc) so i can just copy and go...

on the latest server i created, i've been getting 500 errors for the simplest of syntax mistakes, and im forced to go into /var/log/apache2 to find out what the error was (this time i misspelled the name of a model function...)

when im in a development environment of CI im used to getting these errors through the browser, instead of having to navigate through debian to figure out whats going on... i know i had fixed this somehow before, but i have no idea what i did in the past to change it...

anyone know how to change this behavior? getting annoying every time i miss a semicolon...