PHP error log on IIS does not write to file

Question

I am using an IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 together with PHP 5.5 NTS via FastCGI. Somehow my PHP does not want to log errors to a file. The file never gets created and when I create it manually, PHP does not write into it.

This is my php.ini (verified, that it's the one that gets loaded with phpinfo(); )

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
log_errors = On
error_log = "C:\inetpub\logs\php\php_errors.log"

The specified directory has write access for IIS_IUSRS, IUSR and even the AppPool User (yes I know its redundant, just to make sure). I even turned on display_errors to see if there is an error and it does display the error in my browser but PHP still doesn't want to write an error log.

Edit: [SOLVED]

I was using BasicAuthentication for my website and there the IIS impersonates the user you are logging in with. Therefore I just added my log on user account to the IIS_IUSRS group and now it works.

Brashear

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Edit: [SOLVED]

I was using BasicAuthentication for my website and there the IIS impersonates the user you are logging in with. Therefore I just added my log on user account to the IIS_IUSRS group and now it works.

Vindication

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