Codeigniter not creating any log files

Question

Under config.php I have:

$config['log_threshold'] = 4;
$config['log_path'] = '/home/myaccount/logFilesFolder';

In index.php I have:

error_reporting(E_ALL);

The only way I can seem to get anything to log is if I chmod that directory to rwx (777), which doesn't seem right to me. That and it doesn't see to be logging all the errors.

In my local/dev environment it seems to be working but on my production server nothing is being logged. I can't seem to figure out why.

Demarcusdemaria

did your problem solved? – Portamento

Answer 1

The log filename in the configuration settings needs a trailing "/" above making sure the webserver process has writeable access to the directory.

Demarcusdemaria

Answer 2

Change the logs owner and group to what owner/group your live web server is running, give it write perms and it should work. I take it that in your local/dev server your CI folder is owned by you that is why you need to chmod it to 777 to make it work.

Portamento

Answer 3

The directory where you want the log files to be saved needs to be writable.

Walkyrie

thank you!!!! dont know how many times ive restarted the server to get this wokring – Nucleate

Answer 4

I have tried a lot of solutions and finally what worked for me was this:

Open system/libraries/Log.php and change the following lines; set the value of: $this->log_path to a writable directory, preferably home directory so that there are no permission issues. If you want to change the filename also, search for the variable $filepath and change the name. Example: $this->log_path = '/log'; touch /log/ restart the webserver. The logs will start coming.

I have tried a lot of other options, none worked, this is not neat approach but at least I can see my logs now.

Vitovitoria

Answer 5

I had the same problem with my Codeigniter 4 project. The log was created successfully in my local window machine but was not creating on the remote Linux machine. I was using a custom path to generate log files under the 'app' folder. So what I did is to change the settings in my config/Logger.php file back to

'path' => WRITEPATH.'logs/',

and it created the log files under writeable/logs folder.

Ragi