Finding the PHP error logs

Posted by zeropaper on March 21, 2012 at 12:59pm

Hi,

I am facing a WOS when I run a Drupal6 site with a "very unstable" module and would like to know what the error(s) are.
But I can't find anything in the Drupal log (watchdog) and in the /var/log/php, every log files only contain: "rotate"

ls -shl /var/log/php
total 20K
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Mar 21 13:10 error_log_52
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Mar 21 13:10 error_log_53
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 Mar 21 13:10 error_log_cli
4.0K -rw------- 1 root root 7 Mar 21 13:10 php-fpm-error.log
4.0K -rw------- 1 root root 7 Mar 21 13:10 php-fpm-slow.log

Did I missed something?

Comments

as I know, the error log will

Posted by bennos on March 21, 2012 at 2:24pm

as I know, the error log will only be written when you are in a dev enviroment.

make the sie available with an alias dev.domain.com and all wil be in /var/log/php

Is it not an issue (to behave

Posted by zeropaper on March 21, 2012 at 3:23pm

Is it not an issue (to behave like that)?
I mean.. logs have their purposes.

Whatever, I'm gonna try your trick and thanks!

No

Posted by omega8cc on March 21, 2012 at 4:00pm

It is not connected/related.

The "dev." (note the dot) in the subdomain enables all errors on screen, even if there will be no entries in the error logs on the disk.

Note that error logs are emptied hourly, so it is normal to see there just "rotate" keyword.

I was looking at some

Posted by zeropaper on March 21, 2012 at 4:06pm

I was looking at some documentation. Now I know where to find it.
Thanks for the answer and the great work done on Barracuda.

Same even with "dev."

Posted by zeropaper on March 22, 2012 at 8:35am

I'm a bit confused..

I created a "dev." domain alias
Go to the page (but the "dev." alias) where the error occurs and get the WSOD
Directly go looking at the logs in /var/log/php

Still the same only the "rotate" word.. did I missed something?

Should it be posted as an issue?

Nevermind

Posted by zeropaper on March 22, 2012 at 8:39am

I got the problem...

The screen was not completely blank... something was returned (a nice error stack) but the HTML is so screwed that it is "visible".

All the best and thanks again.

Why error logs are purged hourly

Posted by omega8cc on March 21, 2012 at 4:06pm

Because it is possible to get your disk full (especially when it is a SSD based server) in a very short time, when there are some error loops. We have experienced just that a few times in a past, hence this purge action built-in in Barracuda by default now.