Access error logs on apache AWS EC2 Linux server

Question

I'm getting into my server into the right directory just fine (as su).

cd /var/log/httpd

When I ls, I get:

access_log error_log

However, when I try cd /error_log or cd error_log, I get bash: cd: /error_log: No such file or directory or bash: cd: error_log: Not a directory.

I want to simply view the last 50 or so errors (from PHP file), but not sure how to get to it. I know I need something like tail -n 300 error_log-20130602 | more, but I don't know the log file name.

Answer 1

The logfile name is /var/log/httpd/access_log and /var/log/httpd/error_log with no file extension or date.

That's why you get the error message

bash: cd: error_log: Not a directory.

It's a file

tail or head or more will work on it just fine

last 50 errors should be in the error_log