Valet: Documentation needed for error logs

[Flimm]

Once you have set up Valet to serve a website, where can you find the access logs and the error logs for that website?

I can see the file ~/.config/valet/Log/nginx-error.log, but it doesn't seem to contain the access log or the output of the error_log function in PHP.

[Flimm]

I've done some troubleshooting, and here are my discoveries for lurkers coming across this.

For a Homebrew installation of nginx and Valet, the configuration of nginx is at /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf. In that file, I can see this line:

include valet/valet.conf

In the file /usr/local/etc/nginx/valet/valet.conf, I see these two lines:

access_log off;
error_log /Users/flimm/.config/valet/Log/nginx-error.log;

So you might want to check that those values are what you want them to be.

Create a file test.php with the contents:

<?php
error_log("test");

And run it. You should get the log output test in your error file.

If not, have a look at my answer on StackOverflow which goes into detail about debugging error_log().

I still think that Valet could use better documentation for error logs, so I'm leaving this issue open.

[mattstauffer]

Thanks for this @Flimm! I think adding more documentation about this would be really great and encourage anyone who comes across this issue to consider PRing it. Thanks!

[josecanhelp]

Do we need more documentation beyond providing the valet log command as an option?

Valet Documentation referencing Log Command

The command output is very detailed:

[drbyte]

@josecanhelp I tend to agree. I'm not sure much more is needed for documenting this command.

@Flimm or @mattstauffer can close this issue IMO

[Flimm]

Thank you for your time!