{"id":1194,"date":"2021-09-09T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webhostingchennai.co.in\/blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2021-09-27T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T11:48:15","slug":"cpanel-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chennaiwebhosting.in\/blog\/cpanel-logs\/","title":{"rendered":"cPanel Logs &#8211; Apache, Access, Email, Error, FTP, MySQL, WHM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/chennaiwebhosting.in\/blog\/cpanel-logs\/#cPanel_Logs_%E2%80%93_Apache_Access_Email_Error_FTP_MySQL_WHM\" >cPanel Logs &#8211; Apache, Access, Email, Error, FTP, MySQL, WHM<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/chennaiwebhosting.in\/blog\/cpanel-logs\/#cPanel_logs\" >cPanel logs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/chennaiwebhosting.in\/blog\/cpanel-logs\/#cPanel_access_log\" >cPanel access log<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/chennaiwebhosting.in\/blog\/cpanel-logs\/#cPanel_apache_log\" >cPanel apache log<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/chennaiwebhosting.in\/blog\/cpanel-logs\/#cPanel_email_log\" >cPanel email log<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/chennaiwebhosting.in\/blog\/cpanel-logs\/#MySQL_log\" >MySQL log<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"cPanel_Logs_%E2%80%93_Apache_Access_Email_Error_FTP_MySQL_WHM\"><\/span>cPanel Logs &#8211; Apache, Access, Email, Error, FTP, MySQL, WHM<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cpanel.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cPanel<\/a> uses a graphical interface to make <a href=\"http:\/\/chennaihosting.net\/shared-web-hosting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">web hosting<\/a> super easy, but there are command line tools you could familiarize yourself with for advanced troubleshooting. cPanel logs most activity that happens on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webhostingchennai.co.in\/web-host-chennai.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">server<\/a> to log files so you can go back and review log entries for problems, instead of having to be on the server at the time of them happening.<\/p>\n<p>In this guide we will see the locations of the cPanel log files for things such as access logs, Apache web server logs, email logs, error logs, ftp logs, MySQL logs, and WHM logs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-229 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/chennaihosting.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/loglocationsposter.jpg\" alt=\"cPanel Logs - Apache, Access, Email, Error, FTP, MySQL, WHM\" width=\"720\" height=\"1051\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the above image, you can see the log locations. However we will see the complete log lists and its location following by this image.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"cPanel_logs\"><\/span>cPanel logs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"article_table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Access logs and user actions<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/access_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Account transfers and misc. logs<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/cpanel\/logs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Auditing log (account creations, deletions, etc)<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/cpanel\/accounting.log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Backup logs<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/cpbackup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Brute force protection (cphulkd) log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/cphulkd.log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Cpanel dnsadmin dns clustering daemon<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/dnsadmin_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Cpanel taskqueue processing daemon<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/queueprocd.log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">DBmapping<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/setupdbmap_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">EasyApache build logs<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/easy\/apache\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Error log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/error_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Installation log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/log\/cpanel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">License updates and errors<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/license_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Locale database modifications<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/build_locale_database_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Login errors (CPSRVD)<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/login_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Horde<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/cpanel\/horde\/log\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">RoundCube<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/cpanel\/roundcube\/log\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">SquirrelMail<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/cpanel\/squirrelmail\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Panic log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/panic_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Per account bandwidth history (Cached)<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/cpanel\/bandwidth.cache\/{USERNAME}<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Per account bandwidth history (Human Readable)<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/cpanel\/bandwidth\/{USERNAME}<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Service status logs<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/log\/chkservd.log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Tailwatch driver tailwatchd log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/tailwatch_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Update analysis reporting<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/updated_analysis\/{TIMESTAMP}.log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Update (UPCP) log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/cpanel\/updatelogs\/updated.{TIMESTAMP}.log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">WebDisk (CPDAVD)<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/cpdavd_error_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Website statistics log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/stats_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"cPanel_access_log\"><\/span>cPanel access log<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"article_table\" width=\"800\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Access logs and user actions<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/access_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"cPanel_apache_log\"><\/span>cPanel apache log<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"article_table\" width=\"799\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Apache restarts done through cPanel and WHM<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/safeapcherestart_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Domain access logs<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/apache\/domlogs\/{DOMAIN}<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Processing of log splitting<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/cpanel\/logs\/splitlogs_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">suPHP audit log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/apache\/logs\/suphp_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Web server and CGI application error log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/usr\/local\/apache\/logs\/error_log<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"cPanel_email_log\"><\/span>cPanel email log<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"article_table\" width=\"797\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Delivery and receipt log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/log\/exim_mainlog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Incoming mail queue<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/spool\/exim\/input\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Log of messages rejected based<\/p>\n<p>on ACLS or other policies<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/log\/exim_rejectlog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">Unexpected\/Fatal error log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/log\/exim_paniclog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">IMAP, POP login attempts, transactions,<\/p>\n<p>fatal errors and spam scoring<\/th>\n<td>\/var\/log\/maillog<br \/>\n\/var\/log\/messages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"MySQL_log\"><\/span>MySQL log<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<table class=\"article_table\" width=\"800\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">MySQL error log<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/lib\/mysql\/{SERVER_NAME}.err<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\">MySQL slow query log (if enabled in my.cnf)<\/th>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\/var\/log\/slowqueries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From this you find where to begin looking if you suspect problems on your cPanel server.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this post helps your need, Please share your comments to improve us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cPanel Logs &#8211; Apache, Access, Email, Error, FTP, MySQL, WHM cPanel uses a graphical interface to make web hosting super easy, but there are command line tools you could familiarize yourself with for advanced troubleshooting. cPanel logs most activity that happens on 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