Huge laravel.log

lucaw · November 23, 2021, 9:20am

Hey!
my laravel.log is now 259.49 MB big - is it possible to delete it (of course backup it before) in order to get a new, clean log file? That would help to find new bugs faster.

hillel · November 23, 2021, 10:33am

Hi,

There shouldn’t be a problem deleting the file.

cc @david

lucaw · November 23, 2021, 6:04pm

Thanks, @hillel!
I created a new, empty laravel.log, but it doesn’t get updated… so I don’t think that works.

hillel · November 23, 2021, 6:13pm

I suggest trying to delete the file you created and allow the app to create the file itself.

lucaw · November 23, 2021, 6:35pm

That’s what I tried at the beginning, but after approx. 2h the app didn’t create a log file itself.

hillel · November 23, 2021, 6:39pm

@david do you have any thoughts?

david · November 24, 2021, 3:14am

The app will only generate a log when if/when it needs to write to it. As long as the directory is writable by the webuser, you shouldn’t have to do anything else.