I CANNOT see any log files under my Linux directory!!!

/usr/local/apache2.2.14/logs


I see ErrorLog entry in the httpd.conf file like the below.

ErrorLog "logs/error_log"


Also,

when I start the server using the command,

/usr/local/apache2.2.14/apachectl -k start

what is log that I need to look into?

Any of you have any clue please let me know as it is pretty urgent for me.

Thanks,
Raja

Not urgent for anyone else here, so don't flag your posts as urgent. If you need urgent support, pay for it through RedHat enterprise, SUSE, etc., and they'll be there for you. Otherwise, we volunteer our time here, so asking us to hurry is very rude.

You don't provide useful information, such as version/distro of Linux, or how you installed Apache (did you compile via source, or did you install via package?), so it's hard to help. Do you see an access log created? Is there data in it? Have you checked the /var/log/apache2 directory?

Hi,

The version of my Linux is,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga).

To install my Apache (2.2.14) I compiled source.

There is NO access log, error log created, also I do NOT see /var/log/apache2 directory itself.

Thanks

start like this and check
/usr/local/apache2.2.14/bin/httpd -k start

is this your prefix path?

Yes, /usr/local/apache2.2.14 is my prefix path.

OK, my only problem is somehow log file paths (for error_log and for access_log) that I specified in httpd.conf against ErrorLog and CustomLog directives respectively are not being identified by Apache and it is not able to create/identify the log files from the logs directory.

For example,

in my /usr/local/apache2.2.14/conf/httpd.conf file, I have specified that,

ErrorLog "/usr/local/apache2.2.14/logs/error_log"

and

CustomLog "/usr/local/apache2.2.14/logs/access_log"

but I think, it is NOT able to identify the above paths and the result is I cannot see any log files under the "/usr/local/apache2.2.14/logs/" folder!

Pls. help.

I think you don't need to create this path manually, httpd will do this automatically at your prefix location when you first start the services. Even if you delete those log files it will generate on next service restart (but if we manually touch the log file it won't update by httpd)

Permissions on the directories?