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Alana Storm
Alana Storm

Reputation: 166066

Locating the Web Server's Programatic Error Log in PHP

In PHP, errors are logged to a file specified in the 

error_log

php.ini key. However, if error_log is not set, PHP will pass this error onto the web server application (Apache, nginx, etc.), which usually results in the error being logged to the web server's error log.

Is there a way, from PHP, to see/fetch/divine the web server's error log for the current domain? Or do you need to manually parse your webserver's configuration file for this information?

Mainly interested in error created via PHP code, not errors created by server configuration.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 98

Answers (1)

Jani Hartikainen
Jani Hartikainen

Reputation: 43243

It might be possible to do this in theory, but in practice it's not feasible due to several factors:

  • access to the error log might be limited
  • location of the error log depends on OS
  • format of the error log can depend on the server

So trying to find and parse the actual webserver error log is probably not something that could be done with reasonable amount of effort.

However, what you could do, is simply use ini_set from within your script to override the default error log. This way you could just change the error log to your script's directory or such, and parse it from there.

Upvotes: 2

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