[mapserver-users] Where is the error log file?

[Robert Sanson]

Hi Jenia

I configure the location of my Mapserver error log file in my map file:

CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" "/mnt/gisdata/tmp/ms_tmp/ms_error.txt"

Regards,

Robert

From: mapserver-users [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of jenia mtl
Sent: Monday, 25 July 2016 7:53 a.m.
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] Where is the error log file?

Hello

I want to do the first example in the MS docs but I get:



    502 errors: 20 upstream prematurely closed FastCGI stdout while reading response header from upstream.



So I decided that I definitely need to read the error log from Mapserver but I can't find it.

So my question is, where is the error log of MapServer?

I launch MS like this:



    spawn-fcgi   -a 127.0.0.1 -p 8001 /usr/bin/mapserv



I use archlinux. Typically in systemd (which archlinux uses) the error logs go to a standard place (journalctl). But I can't find them there. Specifically, I tried do `journalctl --no-pager | grep mapserv`. Didn't find anything from mapserv. So my question again is where is the error log of MapServer?

I tried to set a custom error log path, but it didn't work. The error.txt file is not being written to.

Here is the relevant part of the config:



    CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" "/home/jenia/mapserver-exercises/error.txt"
    DEBUG 5



The rest is just this mapfile (with the paths changed ofcourse): http://mapserver.org/tutorial/example1-1-map.html#example1-1-map


And I access it using this url:



    http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/jenia/mapserver-exercises/example1-1.map&layer=states&mode=map



That's the mapfile's ls output:



    [jenia at localhost mapserver-exercises]$ ls -l /home/jenia/mapserver-exercises/example1-1.map
    -rw-r--r-- 1 jenia jenia 2328 Jul 24 14:04 /home/jenia/mapserver-exercises/example1-1.map



To reiterate, I have two quesiton.

1. Most importantly, where is the default Mapserver error log?
2. What did I do wrong in setting the custom error log?


Thanks in advance for your time and kind help
Jenia

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