How do I access my application logs?

September 8, 2013 10.8k views
judy.ngai1228
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I successfully deployed my ruby on rails app using a combination of this railscast http://railscasts.com/episodes/335-deploying-to-a-vps and this tutorial https://coderwall.com/p/yz8cha . but my app is not fully working, How do I access my application logs? after ssh into my vps?
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kamaln7 MOD September 8, 2013
The output log is found in /home/username/apps/projectname/current/log/unicorn.log.

You can use the 'tail' command to output the last X lines of the file, or less to read all of it (type G (yes, it has to be uppercase) to reach the end of the file after running less. 

#output the last few lines

tail /home/username/apps/projectname/current/log/unicorn.log

#output the last 40 lines

tail -40 /home/username/apps/projectname/current/log/unicorn.log



#read using less

less /home/username/apps/projectname/current/log/unicorn.log
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janjackson January 16, 2017

@kamaln7 how do I view the logs from the droplet? Or is this command for the droplet (didnt work for me)

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