Apache (httpd) Wont start because "could not open error log"

Question

ok guys, im stumped. I install centos 7.2 on a vm, installed httpd, enabled it as a service, then started it then created and edited a config file as follows

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName www.mydomain.com
ServerAlias mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mydomain.com/public_html
#ErrorLog /var/www/mydomain.com/error.log
#CustomLog /var/www/mydomain.com/requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>

So.. When I uncomment the "ErrorLog", which I believe is correct, and there is a file called error.log in directory "/var/www/mydomain.com/" Httpd.service doesn't want to start, with the error:

(13)Permission denied: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file /var/www/mydomain.com/error.log.
AH00015: Unable to open logs

I tried doing chown on the error.log file, to apache:apache, and root:root, and the user for the site, but that didn't work. I also made sure to 755 the directory for www, so the error.log file should be able to be opened by that. Help me out please

Answer 1

Turns out that the error and access logs needed to be placed in /var/log/httpd/ instead of where they were.