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--- building_a_website_on_sdf [2021/03/23 17:04] – [More Pages] added link to resources and more text to tie it together peteyboy
+++ building_a_website_on_sdf [2021/07/01 19:55] – [Diagnose] added error file peteyboy
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 ===== Diagnose =====
-If your site is hosted on sdf.org (you are an ARPA member) then you can grep inside the httpd log file in ///var/log//directory. For example:
+One way to try to figure out what is going wrong when you HTTP requests are made to your site is to look at http access logs.
+If your site is hosted on sdf.org (you are an ARPA member) then you can grep inside the httpd log file in ///var/log// directory. For example:
   $ grep abc123.sdf.org /var/log/httpd/*.log
-If your site is hosted on ma.sdf.org (you are a MetaARPA member) then your can look inside the log file for your web site in "/meta/log". For example:
+If your site is hosted on ma.sdf.org (you are a MetaARPA member) then your can look inside the log file for your web site in ///meta/log//. For example:
   $ less /meta/log/abc123.sdf.org
+If your site is VHOSTed, then you can access your site's own log file by ssh-ing to the ''norge'' server using your {LOGNAME}@{VHOSTDOMAIN} with your normal LOGNAME password, then your log files are ///var/log/nginx/{VHOSTDOMAIN}// and ///var/log/nginx/{VHOSTDOMAIN}.err//. ex:
+  $ ssh peteyboy@irulecomputers.com
+  ... (login stuff)
+  $ less /var/log/nginx/irulecomputers.com
 For additional help, check the information in the FAQ page [[https://sdf.org/?faq?WEB?05|"What About the Access Logs, Statistics, and Quotas?"]]