Where does PHP store the error log? (PHP 5, Apache, FastCGI, and cPanel)

By Guest on Tuesday, 17 June 2025

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I am on shared hosting and have cPanel, Apache, and PHP is run by FastCGI. Where does PHP store the error log?

Is there another way I can find the error log on a shared hosting environment instead of having to go through entire site structure to look for error_log files?

I have access to the php.ini file (I am using PHP version 5.2.16).

PHP stores error logs in /var/log/apache2 if PHP is an apache2 module. Shared hosts are often storing log files in your root directory /log subfolder. But...if you have access to a php.ini file you can do this:

error_log = /var/log/php-scripts.log

According to rinogo's comment: If you're using cPanel, the master log file you're probably looking for is stored (by default) at

/usr/local/apache/logs/error_log

If all else fails you can check the location of the log file using

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

rick

1 week ago

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#22

Linux

php --info | grep error

The terminal will output the error log location.

Windows

php --info | findstr /r /c:"error_log"

The command prompt will output the error log location.

To set the log location
Open your php.ini and add the following line:

error_log = /log/myCustomLog.log

Guest

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It is possible that php is not currently logging anything. If that's the case, you can open your php.ini, and set error_reporting to E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT, or whatever errors you want to see, then set error_log to the path to the directory where you want your errors to get logged. (Note: this is not a full path to a file, just to a directory.)

Guest

1 week ago