DirectAdmin Log File

DirectAdmin Log File Locations

Today we will discuss DirectAdmin Log File Locations. Error logs are useful for troubleshooting your WordPress website Users will know the reason behind the downtime on the website. To investigate the issues, we need to know the location of the log files. In this guide, we are going to discover log files locations in DirectAdmin.

DirectAdmin Default log file:

Contains information about secure login logs, audit logs, etc.

/var/log/directadmin/error.log
/var/log/directadmin/errortaskq.log
/var/log/directadmin/system.log
/var/log/directadmin/security.log

Apache log file:

Through these apache log files, we can find problems with the apache server, syntax errors, etc. in DirectAdmin.

/var/log/httpd/error_log
/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/log/httpd/suexec_log
/var/log/httpd/fpexec_log
/var/log/httpd/domains/domain.com.error.log
/var/log/httpd/domains/domain.com.log
/var/log/messages (generic errors)

ProFTPD Access Logs, ProFTPD Authentication Logs, ProFTPd Logs:

/var/log/proftpd/access.log
/var/log/proftpd/access.log
/var/log/messages (generic errors)

PureFTPd log file:

 /var/log/pureftpd.log

SMTP transfer log:

/var/log/exim/mainlog
/var/log/exim/paniclog
/var/log/exim/rejectlog
/var/log/exim/processlog

Dovecot and vm-pop3d logs :

/var/log/maillog
/var/log/messages

Mysql server logs :

/var/lib/mysql/{SERVER_NAME}.err

Note: If you have MySQL slow query logging enabled in my.cnf. then the location of the file

 /var/log/slowqueries

Cron job logs:

/var/log/cron

Named (bind) logs are included in the generic log location:

/var/log/messages

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