PHP not logging errors

Question

I have tried two different things on my server:

1. • created a directory php in /var/log/
   • changed owner:group to www-data:www-data (apache owner)
   • changed permissions of the directory to 775
   • php.ini has error_log = "/var/log/php/php.log"
   • php.ini already had error logging set to on, and error reporting set to all
   • restarted apache

2. in the code, changed error_log('message') to error_log('message',3,path_to_logfile)

Neither results in messages in the applicable log file.

Answer 1

You say you created /var/log, but you're trying to write to /var/log/php. Try creating a directory called php in /var/log.