Brutally Roll Your Own is a video series on building a PUSH enabled mobile application from scratch, using a Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) server for the back end, and Delphi for the mobile app. This is part-3, in which we begin building the php server application and associated database.
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Have you tried to disable friendly error messages? This should give you a detailed error php message in the browser output (as long as error_reporting allows this).