Apache error log with PHP errors

Question

I just set up PHP and Apache and would like to find where the errors are going. What is the default path of the error logs in apache for PHP?

You havent mentioned what kind of operating system you're running apache on. Check your apache config for the location of logfiles. — pauska, Mar 22 '11 at 22:59
Which is the file that should contain this information by the way? - Thanks! — Genadinik, Mar 22 '11 at 23:02

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 23 '11 at 08:04

There are the locations in these popular operating systems:

RHEL / Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora Linux Apache error file location - /var/log/httpd/error_log

Debian / Ubuntu Linux Apache error log file location - /var/log/apache2/error.log

FreeBSD Apache error log file location - /var/log/httpd-error.log

The detailed answer about the Apache log files is here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apache-logs/

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 07 '12 at 23:06

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Try this:

touch /var/log/php_errors.log
chown www-data: /var/log/php_errors.log
chmod +rw /var/log/php_errors.log

Now you can view PHP errors by this way

    tail /var/log/php_errors.log

answered Sep 07 '12 at 23:06

chupnik

Would be useful to many more - if you could mention where to add the lines 1 and 2 – vishva8kumara Aug 08 '20 at 09:24
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#1 and #2 can be configured in several places: In php.ini (global config) or an apache virtualhost block (per website config)... or at runtime with ini_set(). That is probably why the author of this answer did not get into that particular subject. – Jette Nov 02 '20 at 09:25

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