[Resolved] When I enable log errors, where are they stored?

bunner_bob

I'm disabling "display_errors" and enabling "log_errors" using php_flag in an htaccess file on my shared host.

Where will these errors be written? If it's not somewhere I can get at within their limited ftp area, I guess I'll need to specify my own log file.

I tried doing this already, but it's not working as expected. I created a text file called "phperrors.txt" and uploaded it to the root www directory (for now) of my host. I then entered this line in my htaccess file:
php_flag error_log http://www.mysite.com/phperrors.txt

But when I run phpinfo I see a value of "0" for the error_log.

Of course I'll want to put this file outside the public root, so I'm guessing this approach to the file path is not the best.

Any advice on the best approach?

Thanks,
Bob

tsinka

Hi,

you need to specify the path to the file, not the url, example:

php_value error_log /path/to/phperrors.txt

Use php_value instead of php_flag.

Thomas

bunner_bob

How do I figure out the path? What's the origination point of the path? In other words, what is the path relative to?

The directory I have at my shared server contains such folders as "public_html", "public_ftp", "cgi_bin", etc. That's as high as I can see in the shared setting.

Any ideas? I'll ask my hosting company as well, but they're kind of slow to reply.

tsinka

Hi,

create a little PHP script that just contains

<?PHP
  echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
?>

This should print the full path to the DOCUMENT_ROOT directory on your server. This path should contain one of the directories you posted.
Try to remove the last directory of that path and use that as path to the error log file.

Is it possible for you to create another folder in your directory on the shared server ?

Examples:

The PHP script prints e.g.

/www/hosts/blabla/public_html/........

So you know that /www/hosts/blabla is your root directory on the shared server.

Try to use /www/host/blabla/phperrors.txt in your .htaccess file or create a directory like

/www/hosts/blabla/phplogs and use

/www/hosts/blabla/phplogs/phperrors.txt

whatever you like more. You might need to chmod that directory.

Thomas

bunner_bob

Beautiful - thanks!