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
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