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PHP Script Can't Create Log File

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I moved my web site from another web hosting company to a Linode Ubuntu account.

My site had some PHP scripts that created log files to output trace messages I use in troubleshooting the scripts.

Now that I am on linode, my PHP scripts can't create the log files.

Anything I need to do, perhaps in Apache or PHP to get this to work again?

I have a Linode 512 with LAMP stack StackScript.

Thanks!

Greg

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Your problem isn't related to Linode.

Try http://stackoverflow.com to ask this kind of questions.

Don't forget to write full description - error message and related part of code.

I'd bet it's permissions, assuming you're using the default php installation of mod_php with apache prefork then you're php files will be running under the www-data user, make sure the www-data user has write access to wherever you're logs are written to.

Thanks for the replies. I guess I have some more to learn about Apache to solve this.

Like obs said, it's probably a permissions error. Try running:

sudo chmod 775 /path/to/the/directory/
sudo chown www-data:www-data /path/to/the/directory/

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