Question
Site Crashed - Unreadable Content within my Error Logs
My site recently crashed, while trying to determine what was causing the issue I entered the command:
# cd /var/log/apache2
root@*********:/var/log/apache2# ls
and got this:
access.log error.log.2.gz other_vhosts_access.log.16.gz
error.log error.log.3.gz other_vhosts_access.log.17.gz
error.log.1 error.log.4.gz other_vhosts_access.log.18.gz
error.log.10.gz error.log.5.gz other_vhosts_access.log.19.gz
error.log.11.gz error.log.6.gz other_vhosts_access.log.20.gz
error.log.12.gz error.log.7.gz other_vhosts_access.log.21.gz
error.log.13.gz error.log.8.gz other_vhosts_access.log.22.gz
error.log.14.gz error.log.9.gz other_vhosts_access.log.2.gz
error.log.15.gz other_vhosts_access.log other_vhosts_access.log.3.gz
error.log.16.gz other_vhosts_access.log.1 other_vhosts_access.log.4.gz
error.log.17.gz other_vhosts_access.log.10.gz other_vhosts_access.log.5.gz
error.log.18.gz other_vhosts_access.log.11.gz other_vhosts_access.log.6.gz
error.log.19.gz other_vhosts_access.log.12.gz other_vhosts_access.log.7.gz
error.log.20.gz other_vhosts_access.log.13.gz other_vhosts_access.log.8.gz
error.log.21.gz other_vhosts_access.log.14.gz other_vhosts_access.log.9.gz
error.log.22.gz other_vhosts_access.log.15.gz
Obviously I was curious so I entered this command:
root@**********:/var/log/apache2# nano error.log.10.gz
… and received this:
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I opened another one and got this:
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So not very much help to say the least. Can anyone give me some ideas on what caused the error within my error logs? I rebooted the droplet and the site is now back online but I’m concerned that whatever caused the crash will happen again since I have no idea how it started in the first place. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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