Where does PHP's error log reside in XAMPP?

Question

I've been using XAMPP for Windows.

Where does PHP's error log reside in XAMPP?

Answer 1

\xampp\apache\logs\error.log, where xampp is your installation folder. If you haven't changed the error_log setting in PHP (check with phpinfo()), it will be logged to the Apache log.

Answer 2

I found it in: \xampp\php\logs\php_error_log

Answer 3

For mac users XAMPP Version 1.7.3

/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/logs/error_log

Answer 4

You can also open the xampp control panel and click on the Button "logs":

Answer 5

This might be a simple case of the PHP error log being turned off.

Answer 6

For any one searching for the php log file in XAMPP for Ubuntu, its:

/opt/lampp/logs/php_error_log

Most probably it will be having a big size (mine was about 350 mbs) and it slowed down my text editor after opening. If you do not care about all the past logs you can empty the file easily by simply going to the terminal and then writing these three lines one by one:

sudo su 
cd /opt/lampp/logs/
> php_error_log

And newer logs will be easy and fast to open now.

Hope some Ubuntu user finds it helpful.

Answer 7

\xampp\php\logs did not exist at all for me - for whatever reason.

I simply had to create a folder in \xampp\php\ called logs and then the php_error_log file was created and written to.

Answer 8

Look in your configuration file and search for the error_log setting. Or use phpinfo() to find this setting.

Answer 9

For my issue, I had to zero out the log:

sudo bash -c ' > /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/logs/php_error_log '

Answer 10

\xampp\apache\logs\error.log is the default location of error logs in php.

Answer 11

By default xampp php log file path is in /xampp_installation_folder/php/logs/php_error_log, but I noticed that sometimes it would not be generated automatically. Maybe it could be a Windows account write permission problem? I am not sure, but I created the logs folder and php_error_log file manually and then php logs were logged in it finally.

Answer 12

As said above you can find PHP error log in windows. In c:\xampp\apache\logs\error.log. You can easily display the last logs by tail -f .\error.log