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Reputation: 59

Joomla 3.x Administrator Error : 0 Cannot write to log

I wrote a joomla 3.x simple web site on my local machine and it worked fine. I deployed this to 1&1.com and the front end works fine but the control panel throws an error each time I try to log in saying "0: cannot write to log".

I have tried relative and absolute paths to the log folder in the $log_path parameter of the configuration.php and changed the permissions to the folder and files to all sorts of combinations and still I get the same error? I have created a new log folder and pointed the to that and still no joy?

has anyone come across this error using 1&1.com? I see some suggestions that 1&1.com are really bad with joomla support and I may be best trying another host? I am in 30 day money back guarantee so that is going to be my next move.

Cheers Alex

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3971

Answers (2)

Amit Ray
Amit Ray

Reputation: 3485

First check this link https://joomla.stackexchange.com/questions/4673/error-0-cannot-open-file-for-writing-log-while-updating and if everything is fine and still this doesnt help then proceed to next step

Step:1 get the base path by writing this code to a file and uploading it through ftp

<?php
 $basepath = getcwd();
 echo "Your base Path is: ";
 echo $basepath;
 ?>

When you run that file suppose it is named base.php then go to http://yoursite.com/base.php and get your base path.

Step:2 Create a new log and tmp folder

Now as You have got the base path, create a folder in your main joomla installation and name it newlog with permission 755.

Step:3 Change path in GLobal Configuration

In your global configuration give the base path appending the new folder path. Suppose you get basepath as /var/www/joomla then uou give the log path as /var/www/joomla/newlog

Upvotes: 2

Riccardo Zorn
Riccardo Zorn

Reputation: 5615

I imagine you might have asked 1&1 already, it may be something they know very well.

Anyway make sure you have the correct configuration paths (absolute!) in the configuration.php and that the folder and its files are writable by the user who runs the website instance.

Also clear /cache and /administrator/cache for good measure, as they may have cached some non-authenticated results.

Upvotes: 1

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