Laravel Valet logs

Question

I'm using laravel valet to serve sites in my local dev env, which is great. However, there's only one file in the expected location of ~/.valet/Log:

➜ ls ~/.valet/Log 
nginx-error.log

I've tinkered with php-fpm log settings and the nginx log settings, but I'm not sure that I'm even using the right config files, since I suspect that valet installs its own version of PHP and nginx.

Can any one tell me where the php / nginx config files for valet would be found, and what specific settings to change to drop the PHP error / log files where they're supposed to be written?

Solution

Hopefully this helps with your question about the nginx config files. You can find the nginx configuration for your sites by running cd ~/.config/valet/Nginx in your terminal. To get to the base nginx config for valet use cd /usr/local/etc/nginx/valet. You should then see valet.conf, inside you can update the following lines to put the log files where you want them.

access_log "/Users/[user_id]/.config/valet/Log/access.log";
error_log "/Users/[user_id]/.config/valet/Log/nginx-error.log";

Make sure to run valet restart after you make changes to the valet.conf file.