ErrorLog directive

Purpose

• Clients which time out
• Scripts which produce no output
• .htaccess files which attempt to override things they do not have permission to
• Server bugs which produce a segmentation violation or bus error
• User Authentication configuration problems

Syntax

file is the name of the file to which errors will be logged. It is either a full pathname, or a partial pathname relative to ServerRoot.

Only one ErrorLog directive is allowed in the configuration file.

Default

ErrorLog logs/error_log

Examples

This logs errors to the file logs/errors in the ServerRoot directory.

ErrorLog /tmp/httpd-errors

This logs errors to the file /tmp/httpd-errors.

ErrorLog /dev/null

This effectively turns off error logging.

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