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Can I get a second set of eyes. VHost error logs cause error

I am running
CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core)

I created a Virtualhost, and when I restart httpd, it fails. I used journalctl -l to see error. I lost it in my history, the only way is to regenerate the problem. If I have to I will, but it was not specific at all. Journal just told me what I knew, it tried to start and failed.

After triple checking the paths, I started commenting out sections like the <Directory>, etc. Once I commented out the error logs, the server started and is running. Uncommenting the error section, httpd fails to start.

Code:

#LOG FILES

# ErrorLog /var/www/html/mysite.net/logs/error.log

# CustomLog /var/www/html/mysite.net/logs/access.log combined

I would like to have logs though.

Here is the complete VirtualHost. Any Ideas?

Code:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    

    ServerAdmin myemail@gmail.com

    ServerName  mysite.net

    ServerAlias www.mysite.net *.mysite.net

    

    #Indexes + Directory Root

    DocumentRoot  /var/www/html/mysite.net/

    <Directory "/var/www/html/mysite.net/">

          Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews

          AllowOverride All

          Order allow,deny

          Allow from all

    </Directory> 

    

    #LOG FILES

    # ErrorLog /var/www/html/mysite.net/logs/error.log

    # CustomLog /var/www/html/mysite.net/logs/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Quote:

Once I commented out the error logs, the server started and is running. Uncommenting the error section, httpd fails to start.

#LOG FILES
# ErrorLog /var/www/html/mysite.net/logs/error.log
# CustomLog /var/www/html/mysite.net/logs/access.log combined

Is there any specific reason to use this path for logs, instead of the default /var/log/httpd? Besides that, it's also a bad idea to put logs in the DocumentRoot of your site.
Anyways, if you insist on that, then I guess it's SELinux that's not allowing apache to write it logs into docroot

Regards

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory (Post 5308112)

No, no reason, just an example I read online. thank you for the feedback.

I change the logs to /var/log/httpd/mysite_error.log, and it worked. thank you again.