Where are logs located?
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I'm debugging a JSON endpoint and need to view internal server errors. However, my app/storage/logs dir is empty and it seems there are no other directories dedicated to logs in the project. I've tried googling the subject to no avail.
How can I enable logging, if it's not already enabled and view the logs?
Laravel Solutions
Solution 1 - Laravel
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Ensure debug mode is on - either add
APP_DEBUG=trueto .env file or set an environment variable -
Log files are in storage/logs folder.
laravel.logis the default filename. If there is a permission issue with the log folder, Laravel just halts. So if your endpoint generally works - permissions are not an issue. -
In case your calls don't even reach Laravel or aren't caused by code issues - check web server's log files (check your Apache/nginx config files to see the paths).
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If you use PHP-FPM, check its log files as well (you can see the path to log file in PHP-FPM pool config).
Solution 2 - Laravel
You should be checking the root directory and not the app directory.
Look in $ROOT/storage/laravel.log not app/storage/laravel.log, where root is the top directory of the project.
Solution 3 - Laravel
In Laravel 6, by default the logs are in:
storage/logs/laravel.log
Solution 4 - Laravel
The location of the log file can be found inside channels array config/logging.php (See below)
In case if some one is looking to write to the single channel,
using Laravel's Log Facade, here's how to do.
Log::channel('single')->info('Your message');
Solution 5 - Laravel
Ensure that APP_DEBUG=true is set to on on you .env
If you want to easily check your storage log you can install:
Solution 6 - Laravel
You can access the location programmatically by storage_path() . '/logs':
$logFiles = array_filter(
scandir(storage_path() . '/logs'),
fn($fn) => !str_starts_with($fn,'.') // filter everything that begins with dot
);