This isn’t a question, just a tip that I hope someone finds useful. :) By default, your Apache logs get stored in /etc/apache2/error.log. The trouble with this location is that only the root user (not your sudo user) can access them. You can make them more accessible by having them written out to your user’s folder. sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Scroll down a bit find the line that says: ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log Comment it out and replace it with: ErrorLog /home/<user>/logs/apache_errors.log Create the /home/<user>/logs folder (or wherever you choose to put it) Restart apache: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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Tip: Apache Log Location

Posted January 25, 2013

This isn’t a question, just a tip that I hope someone finds useful. :)

By default, your Apache logs get stored in /etc/apache2/error.log. The trouble with this location is that only the root user (not your sudo user) can access them. You can make them more accessible by having them written out to your user’s folder.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Scroll down a bit find the line that says:

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

Comment it out and replace it with:

ErrorLog /home/<user>/logs/apache_errors.log

Create the /home/<user>/logs folder (or wherever you choose to put it)
Restart apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

clifton

venkateshthalla • August 11, 2015

Thanks for the tip! :)

flavertonrr • May 6, 2016

The Apache user is usually www-data, then remember after pointing this folder, leave the Apache as owner of it:

$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/<your-user>/logs

Paragram • October 6, 2015

Thank you so much! You just saved me a couple hours of pointless searching (:

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