Where can I find the error logs of nginx, using FastCGI and Django?

Question

I'm using Django with FastCGI + nginx. Where are the logs (errors) stored in this case?

Solution 1

Errors are stored in the nginx log file. You can specify it in the root of the nginx configuration file:

error_log  /var/log/nginx/nginx_error.log  warn;

On Mac OS X with Homebrew, the log file was found by default at the following location:

/usr/local/var/log/nginx

Solution 2

I was looking for a different solution.

Error logs, by default, before any configuration is set, on my system (x86 Arch Linux), was found in:

/var/log/nginx/error.log

Solution 3

Run this command, to check error logs:

tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log

Solution 4

My ngninx logs are located here:

/usr/local/var/log/nginx/*

You can also check your nginx.conf to see if you have any directives dumping to custom log.

run nginx -t to locate your nginx.conf.

# in ngingx.conf
error_log  /usr/local/var/log/nginx/error.log;
error_log  /usr/local/var/log/nginx/error.log  notice;
error_log  /usr/local/var/log/nginx/error.log  info;

Nginx is usually set up in /usr/local or /etc/. The server could be configured to dump logs to /var/log as well.

If you have an alternate location for your nginx install and all else fails, you could use the find command to locate your file of choice.

find /usr/ -path "*/nginx/*" -type f -name '*.log', where /usr/ is the folder you wish to start searching from.

Solution 5

Logs location on Linux servers:

Apache – /var/log/httpd/

IIS – C:\inetpub\wwwroot\

Node.js – /var/log/nodejs/

nginx – /var/log/nginx/

Passenger – /var/app/support/logs/

Puma – /var/log/puma/

Python – /opt/python/log/

Tomcat – /var/log/tomcat8

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Comments

[Michael Berkowski]

Apparently this is configureable only at compile time with the --error-log-path compile option trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/147

[jmarceli]

That's maybe version dependent but my log is inside: /opt/nginx/logs/error.log

[Félix Adriyel Gagnon-Grenier]

on Mac OS X with homebrew: /usr/local/var/log/nginx. see lfender's answer

[MarthyM]

On ubuntu I have it in /var/log/nginx/error.log. It is best to check the nginx.conf file and find the error_log setting.

[mrun]

That is not an answer and should be a comment instead. Once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment.

[Jan Bludau]

on raspberry pi3 its the location

[Sridhar Sarnobat]

The logs will be here if you installed Nginx with Homebrew.

[Amit Verma]

Pls do consider of explaining your code and how it would help, so that others can be benefited from this.