Where does PHP store the error log php5 apache fastcgi cpanel

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I am on shared hosting and have Cpanel  Apache  PHP is run by fastcgi   Where does PHP store the error log   Is there any other way I can find the error log on shared hosting environment instead of having to go through entire site structure to look for error log files   I have access to the php ini  I am using PHP version 5 2 16

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The best way is to look in your httpd conf file and see what the default is  It could also be overridden by your specific virtual host  I start by looking at  etc httpd conf httpd conf or  etc apache2 httpd conf and search for error log  It could be listed as either  var log httpd error log or  var log apache2 error log but it might also be listed as simply logs error log   In this case it is a relative path  which means it will be under  etc httpd logs error log  If you still can t find it check the bottom of your httpd conf file and see where your virtual hosts are included  It might be in  etc httpd conf d  lt - as  other  or  extra   Your virtual host could override it then with ErrorLog   path to error log

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When configuring your error log file in php ini  you can use an absolute path or a relative path   A relative path will be resolved based on the location of the generating script  and you ll get a log file in each directory you have scripts in   If you want all your error messages to go to the same file  use an absolute path to the file   See more here  http   www php net manual en ref errorfunc php 53025

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something like this    sudo locate error log   xargs -IX grep -iH  errorlog  X   or  sudo locate error log   xargs -IX grep -iH  errorlog  X   or  sudo find   -iname  error log  2 gt  dev null   xargs -IX grep -iH  errorlog  X

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Linux  php --info   grep error    The terminal will output the error log location   Windows  php --info   findstr  r  c  error log    The command prompt will output the error log location  To set the log location  Open your php ini and add the following line   error log    log myCustomLog log        Thanks  chelmertez   Boom for these  comments on the question

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If you have build Apache and PHP from source  then the error logs by default is generated at your   Apache install dir  logs error log i e generally  usr local apache2 logs error log  Else  if you have installed it from repository  you will find it at  var log apache2 error log You can set the path in your php ini also and verify it by invoking phpinfo

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If You use php5-fpm log default should be under   var log php5-fpm log

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You are on share environment and cannot find error log  always check if cPanel has option Errors on your cPanel dashboard  If you are not being able to find error log  then you can find it there    On cPanel search bar  search Error  it will show Error Pages which are basically lists of different http error pages and other Error is where the error logs are displayed   Other places to look on shared environment   home yourusername logs  home yourusername public html error log

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Try phpinfo   and check for  error log

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PHP stores error logs in  var log apache2 if PHP is an apache2 module   Shared hosts are often storing log files in your root directory  log subfolder  But   if you have access to a php ini file you can do this   error log    var log php-scripts log   According to rinogo s comment  If you re using cPanel  the master log file you re probably looking for is stored  by default  at   usr local apache logs error log   If all else fails you can check the location of the log file using   lt  php phpinfo      gt

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It can also be  var log apache2 error log if you are in google compute engine   And you can view tail like this    tail -f  var log apache2 error log

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whereever you want it to  if you set it your function call  error log  errorMessageforLog       n     4     somePath SomeFileName som

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For PHP-FPM just search config file for error log    cat  etc php-fpm d www conf   grep error log php admin value error log     var log php-fpm www-error log

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On a LAMP environment the php errors are default directed to this below file     var log httpd error log   All access logs come under    var log httpd access log

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Search the httpd conf file for ErrorLog by running cat  lt file location gt    grep ErrorLog on the command line  For example     cat  etc apache2 httpd conf   grep ErrorLog   Output     ErrorLog  The location of the error log file    If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a  lt VirtualHost gt  ErrorLog   private var log apache2 error log    Find the line that starts with ErrorLog and there s your answer   Note  For virtual hosts  you can edit the virtual hosts file httpd-vhosts conf to specify a different log file location

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php --info   grep error   This is helpful  commented by sjas on question  so i included it as a answer

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How do find your PHP error log on Linux   eric dev  var   sudo updatedb  sudo  password for eric  eric dev  var   sudo locate error log   var log httpd error log   Another equivalent way   eric dev  home eric   sudo find   -name  error log  2 gt  dev null   var log httpd error log

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cPanel Error logs are located in    usr local cpanel logs   usr local apache logs   By default Apche logs are located inside    var log apache  or   var log apache2  If anyone is using custom log location then you can check it by running this command   cat  etc apache2 conf httpd conf   grep ErrorLog  If you are getting error that apache2 directory does not exist then you can run this command to find correct location by   whereis apache  or  whereis apache2

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Wordpress  Wordpress will direct error log   messages to  wp-content debug log when WP DEBUG LOG is set to true    See Wordpress Documentation for WP DEBUG LOG

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It appears that by default php does not log errors anywhere  the error log key in php ini is commented out in all the install s I ve seen   Generally I    look for php ini files  locate php ini  Search these files for the error reporting value    Which should be set to whatever amalgamation of php log levels are enough for you     Eg    E ALL  amp   E DEPRECATED  amp   E STRICT Check the error log value to make sure it points to an actual place and is not commented out   The default value doesn t give a full path  only a file name  I don t know where this path resolves to normally  Probably  var log

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for centos 8 var log httpd error log

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You should use absolute path when setting error log variable in your php ini file  otherwise  error logs will be stored according to your relative path    error log    var log php errors   Other solution would be writing simple script which would list all error logs files from directory tree

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NGINX usually stores it in  var log nginx error log or access log   On Ubuntu in any case

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you can go in File Manager check logs folder  check Log file in public html folder  check  php phpinfo    file where log store

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A bit late and a lot of great answers were given  but mine for some reason stored it in   var log php-errors log I m using Ubuntu Server 16 04 and PHP 7 1 28

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