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How do I write my own log messages to log files? I’m a bit lost between what is the EE way of doing things vs the CodeIgniter way of doing things. I can’t actually find any mention anywhere of how to do this with EE, and a cursory grep reveals nothing on the filesystem that looks like a directory for logfiles. system/logs is mentioned in config.php as a default but there’s no such directory.

I know that I can log to control panel logs, and I know that I can get debugging info on my pages if I set the right preferences. Neither is adequate, how do I get this stuff into files?

Ok, I’ve managed to make this work by:

Changing $config[‘log_threshold’] to 4
Putting an absolute URL into $config[‘log_path’] pointing to system/logs/
Creating the system/logs/ directory

It seems a bit weird that I had to create system/logs myself. If leaving ‘log_path’ blank points to system/logs by default, why didn’t the directory exist already? Or is the actual default log directory meant to be someplace else?

Hi Fritzinger,

We don’t ship with a system/logs folder since logging is disabled by default, and those particular settings in config.php aren’t meant to be altered. Glad it works though, and thanks for sharing the steps you took! Will go ahead and close this but don’t hesitate to post again.