Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons. Error log record number: xxxxxx

While installing magento, if you face issue like below, This the is known issue

Error:

Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons. Error log record number: xxxxxx

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Solution:

Step 1. Go to /errors/ folder in magento document root.

Step 2. Copy local.xml.sample as local.xml

# cp local.xml.sample local.xml

Step 3. Edit magento/lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php file, Find and change cache_dir setting.
From:

protected $_options = array(
'cache_dir' => 'null',

To:

protected $_options = array(
'cache_dir' => 'tmp/',

Step 4. Finally create tmp folder in magento document root

# mkdir tmp/

Step 5. done