PHP error messages, logs and log files
PHP errors appear in the browser but can also be fetched as a web server log from the control panel, unless no errors occur or error handling has changed.
Our web servers display all PHP errors in the browser by default, as PHP’s display_errors is enabled by default.
You can view any PHP errors logged in the web server’s log file, under “Webserver logs” in our Control Panel.
If nothing is written to the web server’s logs, it is usually because no PHP errors occur, the error handler has been changed in the source code/CMS, or an issue lies elsewhere.
Webserver logs
All log files the server generates for a product/domain can be found in our Control Panel. There are no internal logs that allow us to “see more” than our customers can.
The log files cannot be accessed directly from the web server’s file system, but in our Control Panel you can download the web server’s logs for further investigation.
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