无法获取PHP错误转到日志文件（Apache日志除外）

Question

On a Ubuntu web server [LAMP], I'm trying to get PHP errors to write into a php_error file, but no matter what I do, they keep going to the apache log.

Here's what I have tried/done:

1. Edited the php.ini file:

   • error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT
   • display_error = Off
   • log_errors = On
   • error_log = /var/log/php_errors.log

2. Restarted Apache

3. Checked the phpinfo() output to verify that the changes I made to the php.ini file took -- they did.

4. After verifying that the errors were still going to the Apache log, I physically created the php_errors.log and tried again. Still going to the Apache log!

5. Rebooted the web server! Still...!

Anybody have a solution?

Answer 1

It had to do with ownership. One or the other has worked [for reasons that are not clear to me]:

chown www-data:www-data /var/log/php_error.log

chown same-user-as-www-home:same-user-as-web-home /var/log/php_error.log

Also, the following has made a difference:

chmod 664 /var/log/php_error.log

[as opposed to chmod 644...again for reasons that are not clear to me]