I'd like to enable the rewrite log to debug some rewrite rules that are giving me problems. So I added these lines at the end of my httpd.conf file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteLog "/logs/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 4
</IfModule>
Next thing I did was restart Apache. It causes an error however, and won't start. This is what I get in the XAMPP Control Panel:
13:14:56 [Apache] Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly.
13:14:56 [Apache] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
13:14:56 [Apache] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
13:14:56 [Apache] Check the "/xampp/apache/logs/error.log" file
13:14:56 [Apache] and the Windows Event Viewer for more clues
I don't get any clue in error.log though. In fact no line is generated when this error occurs.
I also tried changing the RewriteLog line to use an absolute path:
RewriteLog "c:\xampp\apache\logs\rewrite.log"
Could you please help me?
Which version of Apache?
In 2.4, RewriteLog* directives don't exist anymore as logging has been rewritten. In this case, you should append mod_rewrite.c:trace3
to your LogLevel
line where traceX is the level of verbosity (8 >= X >= 1). The output will be written to Apache standard error log (ErrorLog
).
Could you also run these commands:
httpd -t
(syntax checking) then httpd -w
(run Apache but hold open the console, used as stderr)
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