Can i delete apache error.log

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Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Search forums. Deleting log files. Thread starter panit Start date Oct 31, JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Is it OK to delete log files? GOT Get Proactive! You can, but you need to hard restart apache to actually get rid of it.

You should look at service config-apache config-log rotation in whm and make sure its set to rotate the logs. Apr 11, 47, 2, Thank you. I'm sorry but I made a mistake with which log it is. That's why I mentioned the mysql errors. Is there a setting that controls that log file? Thank you for that. It has been done and appears to be working. But the log file is only a day old has is already at 3 MB.

It is mainly due to entries with "Access denied for user Does that mean the server denied access because the IP is in the firewalls deny file or that access was denied because they were trying to access a non-existent location?

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