Find out the error_log's path

Question

I have this domain.com pointed to /home/username/public_html/domain.com.

I added these lines to the .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 500 /oohps.php
ErrorDocument 404 /where.php

So I can show some styled template.

The problem is that when trying to access a nonexisting page, I get an additional internal server error, so these files are not opened.

I wanted to check for the logs, but I cannot find the error log in that path (/home/username/public_html/domain.com).

I found one in /var/log/httpd, but I don't think it’s the right folder, because there are many errors not involved with this page and I didn't see any involved.

Is there a PHP function that would output the errors log file path?

Answer 1

An internal server error has often something to do with Apache and /var/log/httpd/ is the error log file of Apache, so I think you are in the right file.

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The error path is set in php.ini. To get the path use ini_get():

<?php
  $errorPath = ini_get('error_log');
?>

Answer 2

To only get the path where PHP stores its logs, use:

pathinfo(ini_get('error_log'),PATHINFO_DIRNAME);

Which should return something like this (on localhost):

/Applications/MAMP/logs