joomla 3 error: 0 Cannot open file for writing log

Question

I'm migrating my joomla 3.3.6 project from local to online server, but I get this error when I try to login into my administrator panel:

Error: 0 Cannot open file for writing log

My tmp and logs paths are correct in my configuration.php, and the permissions of the folders and files are correct too (755 and 644).

I don't know what else to do.

Answer 1

When you done the migration, the configure paremeters were changing also. Access the root folder where you installed Joomla, there you will locate a file with name "configuration.php". Open the file and change the following lines with the new path of logs and tmp folders:

public $log_path = '/path/to/the/joomla/logs';
public $tmp_path = '/path/to/the/jooomla/tmp';

Also please check the permissions of the above folders when modifying. In CentOS I changed the permissions of logs/error.php to 666 then it works.

Answer 2

This worked for me:

Check path of your application, by

<?php
   $path = getcwd();
   echo "Your Absolute Path is:" . $path;
?>  

then set

$log_path = 'Your Absolute Path'/logs

If it does not solve issue, then

First check in ssh who owns the /var/www directory by:

ls -la /var

Then check what user apache uses

ps aux | grep apache

or you can use:

ps aux | grep http

output:

apache   29672  0.0  1.3 388232 14240
root     29679  0.0  0.2 110456  2252  

in my case apache user for /var/www was apache

so after this I made apache the owner of /var/www by:

sudo chown -R apache /var/www

Answer 3

It is easy to resolve. Access configuration.php using FTP or cpanel. Edit directly in cpanel or download it to your computer using ftp. Edit the Log and Tmp paths to .../log and .../tmp respectly. That solves it. Get back on Joomla backend to verify by Accessing System>>System Information>>Directory Permissions. Hope that helps.