Php error log not working

php apache error-log
Parris Varney picture Parris Varney · Feb 22, 2011 · Viewed 32.8k times · Source

It's been working for ages and stopped. I must be missing something obvious so figured stack overflow might be able to help.

/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini relevant settings are:

display_errors = On (not sure if this makes a difference)
log_errors = On
error_log = "/var/www/error_log.log"

In my code I have:

echo 'About to log';
error_log('An error');

I see About to log on the page, but nothing in the error log. Any ideas?

Answer

mlemos picture mlemos · Feb 22, 2011

Did you restart the Web server? Until you do php.ini changes are not considered.

Also, if you want to track PHP errors, you need to have track_errors=On and error_reporting=E_ALL, although that is not related with error_log calls. Also make sure that the error log file is writeable by the Web server user.

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