Django Logging - Log File from Handler Not Found

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I have logging set up in my Django project. It works locally in development but it causing trouble in production. `settings.py` bits are as follows: ``` import os PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__name__)) . . . 'handlers': { 'log_file': { 'level': 'INFO', 'class': 'logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler', 'filename': os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'logs/django.log'), 'maxBytes': '16777216', 'formatter': 'verbose' }, . . . ``` I keep getting this error in `/var/log/apache2/error.log`: ``` ValueError: Unable to configure handler 'log_file': [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/logs/django.log' ``` I've tested this in the Django shell by running the code and setting `PROJECT_PATH` manually and it seems to return the correct path. Plus, I've checked and checked the permissions on the log file. Although unnecessary, I changed it to `777` just to test. Still no luck. My local log fills up with all that I expect while the production log is empty. In thinking about this, I suppose…

Accepted Answer

Although I would really like to get an answer to this, I have decided to take another approach so I can move on. It seems this question is not spurring enough attention and I don't feel like a bounty right now, so I disabled logging to a file for now. I am going to redesign my approach anyway, so this seems like a decent idea.

What I came up with temporarily that seems to work and not give errors is this (for the file handler definition):

```
'file': {
    'level': 'DEBUG',
    'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
    'filename': '/some/fixed/path/to/logs/django.log',
},
```

Note that before I was using a value derived from `os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'logs/django.log')`. Not sure why this didn't work, but it was the culprit. So even though this bit was correct: `PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__name__))` (even confirmed in the python shell), it wasn't working in production.

Django Logging - Log File from Handler Not Found

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