Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 77199
php logging oddities
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:07 EDT
Description of Problem: A php script that worked with RH73 wouldn't work with RH80. I turned on logging and set the log file to /var/log/httpd/php_errors in the /etc/php.ini file. After this the script worked. (Why would this make any difference?) When I put an error in the script to test the logging feature, nothing was logged. Just to be sure, I created the log file and changed ownership to apache:apache. Tried again, and again no log entry was made, although now errors appeared in the html output. Am I missing something, or should logging errors be as simple as setting these two lines in /etc/php.ini? log_errors = on error_log = /var/log/httpd/php_errors
Since the directory /var/log/httpd is only read&writable by root, PHP will not be able to open a log file at /var/log/httpd/php_log. There are a few things which changed in the PHP configuration in 8.0; register_globals is now off by default, as is short_open_tag, maybe one of these affects your script too.
Actually I had already turned on short_open_tag and the register_globals didn't make any difference. As I said, the script ran perfectly after I changed the logging option. Maybe I should set the logging option back to the original setting and see what happens. Thanks for pointing out permissions on /var/log/httpd. I'll see if changing the permissions makes any difference.
Did you work out what the problem was here?
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