Location of PHP error logs in Laravel Homestead

Question

I'm currently experiencing routing issues, where various pages of my application are returning white pages.

Where are the PHP logs located within Homestead Vagrant so I can diagnose what's the issue?

I've checked /var/log/ and I can only see a php7.0-fpm.log that relates to PHP, but nothing is generated within here when I read it.

Solution

I just had this problem too.

Finally I figured out that it was because my custom Laravel code (that I'd downloaded from my Bitbucket repo onto a new computer) included custom code in bootstrap/app.php at the $app->configureMonologUsing line, and I hadn't properly set up a new .env file.

I guess it can be dangerous / fragile to mess with the default logger.

But now that I fixed my .env, the logs correctly appear in /storage/logs/laravel.log.

Comments

[Quynh Nguyen]

Are you chmod 777 for storage and bootstrap folder?

[Shoaib Rehan]

Log file path: laravel root folder/storage/logs/laravel.txt

[Ryan]

I am so disappointed in in Laravel Homestead. Getting it set up has taken me hours, and finally I can see my website in my browser, but I can only see a 500 error page, and I can't find the logs anywhere. Vagrant and Homestead have been a waste of my time so far. I'd love to see what I'm doing wrong.

[Sabrina Leggett]

@Ryan Try c9.io next time - Homestead was huge waste of time for me too.

[agileMike]

I know this thread is a couple years old but fwiw I also ran into a few problems with setting up homestead, but it was well worth it. Your Google skills definitely have to be on point.

[agileMike]

This led me to the solution for my problem. I needed to copy the .env.example file to .env and configure my database settings. That cleared the 500 and Laravel told me to generate the app key and nicely provided a button on the page to do so.