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Re: [BackupPC-users] On/off again Internal Server Error 500

2011-11-02 10:26:47
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] On/off again Internal Server Error 500
From: Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:25:26 -0400
On 11/2/2011 10:02 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 11/01 01:46 , umiwangu wrote:
>> Normally, Backuppc runs well, doing backups and is accessible via the web 
>> interface, but sometimes, it gives an error page, Internal Server Error 500. 
>> It says to look in the server log to find more info, but I'm really not sure 
>> how to do it. I think it's running via Apache2? The error does seem to crop 
>> up more when the computer is doing a backup. Perhaps this is the problem?
>
> Apache2 logs are usually found in /var/log/apache2; tho it varies depending
> on the Linux distribution. You can find them by looking at the config files
> in /etc/apache2 (tho I haven't touched a Fedora/Red Hat machine in years so
> I don't know if they still use /etc/httpd instead of /etc/apache2).
>
> If you recursively (-r) grep for 'Log' in all the files under /etc/apache2, 
> like so:
>
> cd /etc/apache2
> grep -r Log *
>
> you will likely turn up some directives specifying where log files go.
>
> Likely, there will be an ErrorLog directive that denotes where the errors
> should be recorded. Look at that file using the 'grep', 'less', and 'tail'
> tools. (For instance, if you want to see the last 30 lines of it, do 'tail
> -n 30 /var/log/apache2/error.log').

Apache logs on RedHat systems will be under /var/log/httpd/.

Configuration files are in /etc/httpd/conf/ and /etc/httpd/conf.d/.

-- 
Bowie

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