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How do I access my Access.log to view them for problems.
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Hi there,
In addition to what has already been mentioned, the location of your access log will be different depending on the web service that you are using.
For example for Apache, typically, the access log for Apache on a Linux system would be found in:
/var/log/apache2/access.log
You can view the file with a command like:
sudo tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log
And for Nginx, the access log might be located at:
/var/log/nginx/access.log
You can view the file with a command like:
sudo tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby
Hey @zoscubadiver,
What platform are you using? Is it the App Platform or a Droplet?
If you are using App Platform, You can view activity, build, deployment, and runtime logs in App Platform using the control panel, CLI, and API. You can also enable log forwarding to forward application logs to external log providers.
More on that here :
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/view-logs/
If you are using a Droplet, you’ll need to SSH to it, go to the log’s folder, usually it’s /var/log/ and fidn the log you are looking for. Then you can try and tail or grep in it.
You should enable error.log on your nginx.conf or host configuration file.
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