note 97043 added to function.error-log

When starting Apache from a user context other than Apache's runtime user, the error log file (if one is specified) may be created under the starting user if it did not previously exist. For example, I had specified the incorrect filename for my browscap.ini file, and would only see this error in the log file upon each restart of Apache. Because of this, I assumed I'd configured logging correctly: [24-Feb-2010 12:33:04] PHP Warning: Cannot open '/etc/php5/apache/lite_php_browscap.ini' for reading in Unknown on line 0 No other errors would log at runtime even though I had originally set the owner of the log directory to www-data (Apache runs under this user context). My file (error.log) was being created with the owner = root, because I had restarted the apache2 service as root after configuring the log file location. (I made the poor assumption that since PHP/Apache had created the file it was created by www-data, so I hadn't looked). Changing owner of the log file to the correct user (i.e. www-data) fixed the problem. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 96.57.46.130 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.error-log.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/97043 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97043/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97043/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97043/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97043/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97043/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97043/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/97043 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/97043 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php