Error_Log Files

[hussam]

Since they count towards disk space, any way to disable their generation?

I can log onto my cpanel every half a day and delete them but they tend to hide in random folders on my wordpress installation.

[Ice IT Support]

Error log files aren't that large, but can be a nuisance. Below is a script that will delete all error_log files from your account.

 

Copy the code below into a PHP file:

<?php
error_reporting(0);

## read through directories ##
$it = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]");
foreach(new RecursiveIteratorIterator($it) as $file) {

## remove document root so it doesn't get searched ##
$file = preg_replace("@$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]@", "", $file);

## get directory name and file extension ##
$extract = pathinfo($file);
$dname = ($extract['dirname']);
$ext = ($extract['basename']);

## find files ##
if ( preg_match("/error\_log/", $ext, $match) )
   { $files[] = "$dname/$ext"; }
}

## loop through files ##
asort($files);
$files = preg_replace("@//@", "/", $files);
foreach($files as $value)
{
$path = "$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]$value";
unlink("$path");
echo "Removed: $path<br>";
}
?>

 

Adapted from Byron's core dump sweeper (http://bybyron.net/helio/cordump_sweeper.txt)

[Byron]

You could also add that file to a php include on one of your pages so that when somebody visited your page, it would run the script. If you want to do that you'll need to edit the file so that there's no output like this:

 

{
$path = "$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]$value";
unlink("$path");
# echo "Removed: $path<br>";
} 
exit; 
?>

 

Then add this at the bottom of your page:

 

<?php
include("sweeper.php");
?>

[hussam]

Alright, thank you. I added a sweeper.php file and ran it. it cleaned two error_log files. thank you very much

[yashrs]

Can't we simply add

 

error_reporting(0);

 

to php so that it doesn't generate error_log files ?

[Ice IT Support]

That would would work for the most part. Syntax errors would still come through I think.

[Byron]

Plus he'd have to add that to EVERY php page he had on his site.

[yashrs]

Yeah true , have to add that to every php file