Log Files

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Only some of the log files produced by EPrints and associated applications have been listed so far.

EPrints produces a number of log files, as do the integral components of EPrints such as Apache and MySQL. Below is a list of logs files that may be of interest for debugging EPrints. (Please note that log files may appear in different place for different operating systems):

Name	Typical Location on Red Hat based Linux	Typical Location on Debian based Linux	Purpose	Uses
Apache access log	/var/log/httpd/access_log	/var/log/apache2/access.log	Logs all accesses to HTTP URLs hosted by Apache unless an individual access log has been created for a particular "virtualhost".	Can be searched over to check IP addresses that are making excessive or malicious requests.
Apache error log	/var/log/httpd/error_log	/var/log/apache2/error.log	Logs all issues that occur with Apache or underlying application (i.e. perl and mod_perl) when attempting to service URL requests.	Can be used to debug issues with EPrints code base, where a script cannot or behaves normally when run directly from the command line.
Apache ssl access log	/var/log/httpd/ssl_access_log	/var/log/apache2/ssl_access.log	Logs all accesses to HTTPS URLs hosted by Apache unless an individual access log has been created for a particular "virtualhost".	Can be searched over to check IP addresses that are making excessive or malicious requests for HTTPS URLs.
Apache ssl error log	/var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log	/var/log/apache2/ssl_error.log	Logs all issues that occur with Apache or underlying application (i.e. perl and mod_perl) when attempting to service HTTPS URL requests.	Can be used to debug issues with EPrints code base, where a script cannot or behaves normally when run directly from the command line.
MySQL log	/var/log/mysql/mysql.log or /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log	/var/log/mysql/error.log	Logs general operational issue about MySQL and any errors that occur with the application but not specific database queries	Only really useful if MySQL / MariaDB will not start properly.