error.log files are empty

Hello,

I've 2 websites im hosing on my ISPConfig setup which I followed "The Perfect Server - Debian Lenny".

While working on a website, I noticed my error.log file is empty.

Code:

(/var/www/xxx.com/log)-(3 files, 12Kb)--> ls -la
total 12
drwxr-x--x 2 root root    4096 2010-12-12 12:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 2010-12-09 12:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2624 2010-12-12 12:33 20101212-access.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 2010-12-12 12:02 access.log -> 20101212-access.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web1 client1    0 2010-12-09 01:55 error.log

I've checked the xxx.com.vhost file and it has the following entry
ErrorLog /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/xxx.com/error.log

So I followed this path and the file seems to be empty

Code:

(/var/log/ispconfig/httpd/xxx.com)-(3 files, 12Kb)--> ls -la
total 12
drwxr-x--x 2 root root    4096 2010-12-12 12:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root    4096 2010-12-09 12:46 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    2624 2010-12-12 12:33 20101212-access.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 2010-12-12 12:02 access.log -> 20101212-access.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 web1 client1    0 2010-12-09 01:55 error.log

I'd like to have error.log file for debugging, can you please suggest how to proceed?

 

If the file is empty, it means everything's ok (no errors).

 

Hi falko,

Thank you very much for answering.

In my case, I wanted PHP errors to be printed into error.log.

Had to set log_errors = On in php.ini and reload Apache configurations.

Did the trick!