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Logs and Debugging

Logs can be very helpful when troubleshooting and debugging issues on your WordPress sites. To view your WordPress logs, navigate to the <projectPath>/logs/ folder on your hard drive and open any log file in your favorite text editor.

The default <projectPath> is /Users/user/DevKinsta

WordPress debug log

On your site’s info page, enable WP_DEBUG. Enabling this in DevKinsta will also enable saving errors to your site’s debug.log file. Read more on wordpress.org

Enable WP_DEBUG on your site in DevKinsta.
Enable WP_DEBUG on your site in DevKinsta.

Location

<projectPath>/public/<siteName>/wp-content/debug.log

Access log

The access log is a log of all requests processed by DevKinsta. When you visit your site in a browser, the request is logged in the access.log file with the following data:

  • Date and time
  • Request (Method and URI)
  • HTTP Status Code (200 if everything is fine).
  • Bytes sent
  • HTTP referer
  • User-agent
  • HTTP X Forwarded for

Location

<projectPath>/logs/<siteName>_access.log

Example

[30/Dec/2020:13:49:35 +0000] "GET /wp-content/themes/twentytwentyone/assets/css/print.css?ver=1.0 HTTP/1.1" 200 2897 "http://testsite.local/?skip_cache=1" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_16_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.119 Electron/9.0.5 Safari/537.36" "-"

Error log

Specific PHP errors are logged in the _error.log file.

Location

<projectPath>/logs/<siteName>_error.log

PHP-FPM logs

To view the PHP FastCGI Process Manager logs (PHP-FPM logs), check the file that corresponds to the PHP version used by your local WordPress site.

Location

<projectPath>/logs/php7.2-fpm.log
<projectPath>/logs/php7.3-fpm.log
<projectPath>/logs/php7.4-fpm.log
<projectPath>/logs/php8.0-fpm.log

Service logs

To view Docker container logs, use the commands below in the terminal/command line:

NGINX logs: docker logs -f devkinsta_nginx

PHP-FPM logs: docker logs -f devkinsta_fpm

MariaDB logs: docker logs -f devkinsta_db

MailHog logs: docker logs -f devkinsta_mailhog

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