Hello All, I'm a newbie. I tried searching for an answer to my question, but didn't find anything. I have the following config: Win2003 Server w/ IIS 6 installed on C: partition ISAPI PHP 4.3.4 installed on D: partition (D:\PHP) MySQL installed on D: partition (D:\MySQL) Website roots hosted on D: partition (D:\siteA , D:\siteB, etc.) Everything seems to be working just fine (MySQL access, php code, etc) except for logging. When I began learning PHP error messages where by default displayed to the screen. With the current version(s), that option is turned off and by un-commenting error_log = syslog, errors should be sent to the Windows Event Log (right?). This would be great to me, except it doesn't seem to be working. Also, according to what I have read I should be able to put something like error_log = d:\phpErrs.txt and all php errors would be sent to this file. This doesn't work either. The only thing that works for me is error_log = phpErrs.txt, which creates a phpErrs.txt file in each script directory that generates an error. Maybe this is proper behavior, but it doesn't seem to be from what I have read. I also configured the server w/ ISAPI PHP run from C:\PHP instead of my current install of D:\PHP. This didn't make a difference. Thanks for taking the time to read my post :) Jeff Here is the Error handling and logging section from my php.ini file (I have turned on displaying errors - however, I have tested the above with this on and off, both ways resulting the no log messages sent to a central spot or the Windows Event Log): ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; Error handling and logging ; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ; error_reporting is a bit-field. Or each number up to get desired error ; reporting level ; E_ALL - All errors and warnings ; E_ERROR - fatal run-time errors ; E_WARNING - run-time warnings (non-fatal errors) ; E_PARSE - compile-time parse errors ; E_NOTICE - run-time notices (these are warnings which often result ; from a bug in your code, but it's possible that it was ; intentional (e.g., using an uninitialized variable and ; relying on the fact it's automatically initialized to an ; empty string) ; E_CORE_ERROR - fatal errors that occur during PHP's initial startup ; E_CORE_WARNING - warnings (non-fatal errors) that occur during PHP's ; initial startup ; E_COMPILE_ERROR - fatal compile-time errors ; E_COMPILE_WARNING - compile-time warnings (non-fatal errors) ; E_USER_ERROR - user-generated error message ; E_USER_WARNING - user-generated warning message ; E_USER_NOTICE - user-generated notice message ; ; Examples: ; ; - Show all errors, except for notices ; ;error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE ; ; - Show only errors ; ;error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR ; ; - Show all errors ; error_reporting = E_ALL ; Print out errors (as a part of the output). For production web sites, ; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error logging ; instead (see below). Keeping display_errors enabled on a production web site ; may reveal security information to end users, such as file paths on your Web ; server, your database schema or other information. display_errors = on ; Even when display_errors is on, errors that occur during PHP's startup ; sequence are not displayed. It's strongly recommended to keep ; display_startup_errors off, except for when debugging. display_startup_errors = on ; Log errors into a log file (server-specific log, stderr, or error_log (below)) ; As stated above, you're strongly advised to use error logging in place of ; error displaying on production web sites. log_errors = on ; Set maximum length of log_errors. In error_log information about the source is ; added. The default is 1024 and 0 allows to not apply any maximum length at all. log_errors_max_len = 1024 ; Do not log repeated messages. Repeated errors must occur in same file on same ; line until ignore_repeated_source is set true. ignore_repeated_errors = Off ; Ignore source of message when ignoring repeated messages. When this setting ; is On you will not log errors with repeated messages from different files or ; sourcelines. ignore_repeated_source = Off ; If this parameter is set to Off, then memory leaks will not be shown (on ; stdout or in the log). This has only effect in a debug compile, and if ; error reporting includes E_WARNING in the allowed list report_memleaks = On ; Store the last error/warning message in $php_errormsg (boolean). track_errors = Off ; Disable the inclusion of HTML tags in error messages. ;html_errors = Off ; If html_errors is set On PHP produces clickable error messages that direct ; to a page describing the error or function causing the error in detail. ; You can download a copy of the PHP manual from http://www.php.net/docs.php ; and change docref_root to the base URL of your local copy including the ; leading '/'. You must also specify the file extension being used including ; the dot. ;docref_root = "/phpmanual/" ;docref_ext = .html ; String to output before an error message. ;error_prepend_string = "<font color=ff0000>" ; String to output after an error message. ;error_append_string = "</font>" ; Log errors to specified file. ;error_log = D:\phpErrs.txt ; Log errors to syslog (Event Log on NT, not valid in Windows 95). error_log = syslog -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
