Changing cache_dir and log_dir with Symfony2

Question

Because of deployment constraints, I would like to have the log and cache directories used by my Symfony2 application somewhere under /var/... in my file system. For this reason

Answer 1

In symfony you can override the cache (and logs) directory by extending the method in AppKernel.

// app/appKernel.php
class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    // ...

    public function getCacheDir()
    {
        return $this->rootDir.'/'.$this->environment.'/cache';
    }
}

Check out http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/configuration/override_dir_structure.html#override-cache-dir