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
– pauska, Commented Mar 22, 2011 at 22:59
Which is the file that should contain this information by the way? - Thanks! — Genadinik
– Genadinik, Commented Mar 22, 2011 at 23:02

Genadinik · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-23 08:04:36Z

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/

chupnik · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-07 23:06:24Z

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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 7, 2012 at 23:06

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