Location of error log file?

[Falesh]

I'm planning on setting up a cron job for each site on my reseller account to email me any errors that have occurred during that day. The trouble is I can't find the error log file. Does it exist in the directory structure I have access to or do I need to change the Raw Log Manager settings to create it?

Cheers!

[Administrator]

Only rooot user has got access to error logs. Somee error logs related to your account are provided in the cpanel but you wont be able to fetch those using a script or cron as they are under ownership of cpanel.

[Falesh]

Ahh well, thanks for the info.

[Falesh]

I've figured out a work around using cURL. First create a file in your base directory (not your web directory since the script has passwords in it) e.g. /home/##username##/errorreport.php Add the following code to it, changing the bits starting and ending in ##:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, '##AddressOfErrlog##');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, '##username##:##password##');
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$pattern = '/\<pre\>(.*)\<\/pre\>/s';
preg_match($pattern, $content, $matches);

mail('##toemailaddress##', 'Errors', $matches[1]);

To find the ##AddressOfErrlog##, open cPanel then click on "Error log" then copy the url. Once that is created set up a Cron job to execute once per day the command: "php /home/##username##/errorreport.php". You can add as many sites as you want, just copy the code block and change the username, password and AddressOfErrlog to each site you want to report errors from.

Now sit back and check your mail each day to see if any of your sites are going pear shaped.