How to enable loglevel debug on Apache2 server
DebuggingApache2Error LoggingDebugging Problem Overview
My error.log contains:
>Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
I replaced loglevel on apache config file:
LogLevel debug
After restarting, I'm getting the same error message without what could be called "a backtrace". As I understand there should be those 10 lines of redirects generated by mod_rewrite regex.
After searching all over the internet I've found plenty of explanations of loglevel and mod_rewrite, but not a word of how to make loglevel debug work.
Any ideas?
Debugging Solutions
Solution 1 - Debugging
Do note that on newer Apache versions the RewriteLog
and RewriteLogLevel
have been removed, and in fact will now trigger an error when trying to start Apache (at least on my XAMPP installation with Apache 2.4.2):
>AH00526: Syntax error on line xx of path/to/config/file.conf: Invalid command 'RewriteLog', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration`
Instead, you're now supposed to use the general LogLevel
directive, with a level of trace1
up to trace8
. 'debug' didn't display any rewrite messages in the log for me.
Example: LogLevel warn rewrite:trace3
For the official documentation, see here.
Of course this also means that now your rewrite logs will be written in the general error log file and you'll have to sort them out yourself.
Solution 2 - Debugging
Edit: note that this answer is 3+ years old. For newer versions of apache, please see the answer by sp00n. Leaving this answer for users of older versions of apache.
For older version apache:
For debugging mod_rewrite issues, you'll want to use RewriteLogLevel and RewriteLog:
RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteLog "/usr/local/var/apache/logs/rewrite.log"
Solution 3 - Debugging
You need to use LogLevel rewrite:trace3
to your httpd.conf
in newer version
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_rewrite.html#logging