IIS: Where can I find the IIS logs?

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Kjartan picture Kjartan · Jun 21, 2011 · Viewed 553.2k times · Source

I'm trying to set up an application from a third party, which requires a supporting website hosted in my local IIS. I've created a website exactly as explained in their install guide, but am having some problems, and would like to see what the IIS log has to say. Embarrassingly enough, the problem is I can't find the log files!

So my question is: Where does IIS7 store logs by default?

Answer

jishi picture jishi · Jun 21, 2011

I think the default place for access logs is 

%SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles

Otherwise, check under IIS Manager, select the computer on the left pane, and in the middle pane, go under "Logging" in the IIS area. There you will se the default location for all sites (this is however overridable on all sites)

You could also look into 

%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\LogFiles\HTTPERR

Which will contain similar log files that only represents errors.

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