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Getting Started Home Page | Knowledge Base 24 X 7 HEROIC SUPPORT 800.580.4985 (1-517-322-0434) Find Answers To Web Hosting Questions SearchSearch Locations of Common Log Files on cPanel Servers Category: cpanel update log location Technical Support One of the nice things about cPanel based servers is the
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way that they keep the location of key files in the same place across all of the various cPanel cpanel error log empty versions. Due to this consistency one always knows where to look for logs files for all services running on a cPanel server. Apache Apache is the web server that is typically utilized by cpanel error logs apache cPanel. On cPanel servers Apache does write to a rather high number of logs as each site has its own traffic log. /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log The access_log is used to log all http requests to ether the hostname of the server, requests directed at the servers IPs, or sites that resolve to the server but are no longer hosted on it. /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log On cPanel servers all Apache
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errors, regardless of site, are logged in the error_log. /usr/local/apache/domlogs Within the domlogs folder each site on the server will have its own log file. These files will be the fully qualified domain name for the domain, ie domain.com, liquidweb.com. All http traffic to a site will be logged in this log file. Exim Exim is the MTA(Mail Transfer Agent) that cPanel utilizes. Exim has three primary logs, but only two of these logs contain useful information /var/log/exim_mainlog The exim_mainlog contains ALL interactions that exim handles, so both incoming and outgoing mail transactions. /var/log/exim_rejectlog The exim_rejectlog contains all connection attempts that were denied. This information is also logged in the exim_mainlog. For more information on Exim's logs try a Google search for "Exim Cheat Sheet". cPanel Cpanel does log all http traffic to WHM, webmail, and cPanel access. All cPanel logs are located in the /usr/local/cpanel/logs directory. /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log This access_log contains all traffic to WHM, cPanel, and webmail over http. /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log This error_log contains all errors that occur when accessing a cPanel related site over http or https. FTP Regardless of FTP deamon in use, cPanel does log connections, uploads, and downloads. However,
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cPanel log file locations and Basic troubleshooting, most activity that happens on a server to log files, so that you can go back and review log entries for problems, instead of having to be on the server at the time of them happening. Kernel Boot & Hardware error logs Path : /var/log/dmesg Use the command ” dmesg ” in the root shell to display all the kernel ring buffer (last 64 K) stored in the memory. Just use ” dmesg > boot.messages ” to store the logs in the separate file, and if you want to clear the dmesg just type ” dmesg -c “. System Informations Path : /var/log/messages Use “ tail -f /var/log/message ” to list what is going on with your system and with your dns. This logs helps the admin to find our any form of tcp/udp and other form of attacks. Bad Login / Logout logs Path : /var/log/btmp Stores all the bad login and logout attempts either failure or success. Just use the lastb command to list all the log in a clear format with date/time etc to trace and block the attack source. This kind of attacks on ssh are normally done using a script with Brute force password crackers. Login / Logout logs Path : /var/log/wtmp Similar to the bad login/logout this log store the good/authorized system login and logout which can be listed using ” last “ command. Last Logins Logs Path : /var/log/lastlog Database times of previous user logins. The lastlog file is a database which contains info on the last login of each user. Use the ” lastlog ” command to retrieve the data from the logs. Authentication logs Path : /var/log/secure Logs all daemons which requires PAM Authentication. Common Cpanel logs cPanel/WHM Initial Installation Errors Path : /var/log/cpanel*install* Logs use to record the missing dependency or any error which its encouter during the cpanel installation process including the hardware driver failures/mis-matches. Cpanel License Error Logs Path : /usr/local/cpanel/logs/license_log Lic