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*DSpace log:* {{\[dspace\]/log/dspace.log}} (_usually_) |
{{\[dspace\]}} is the location where DSpace is installed. |
*Tomcat log directory:* {{\[tomcat\]/logs}} (_usually_) |
{{\[tomcat\]}} is the location where Tomcat is installed. |
DSpace 1.5.1 or previous: {{\[tomcat\]/webapps/<name-of-webapp>/WEB-INF/logs/}} |
DSpace 1.5.2 or later: {{\[dspace\]/log/cocoon.log}} |
If the expected information simply never appears, leaving a blank browser screen, the problem is likely with either a servlet (for JSPUI) or an XSLT Theme (for XMLUI). The error message should be in either {{\[dspace\]/log/dspace.log}} OR {{\[tomcat\]/logs/}}. For the XMLUI, you may also want to check the Cocoon logs (see above for path) to see if any extra information can be found there. |
If you get an "Internal Server Error" message, you will have to check the log files for a full error listing. If your email address is set up in dspace.cfg ({{alert.recipient}}) as the DSpace Administrator, you should receive an email with this full error listing. If not, move into the DSpace log directory ({{\[dspace\]/log}}) and view the end of the log file: |
tail -100 dspace.log
Alternatively, you can open up the dspace.log file in your favorite text editor and look near the bottom of the file for the error message.yyyy-mm-dd time ERROR ...
OR,yyyy-mm-dd time WARN ...
If you'd like to try and do some debugging yourself, you can change the DSpace logger settings to {{DEBUG}} which will sometimes provide you with more information about the error. To turn on debugging, visit the {{\[dspace\]/config/log4j.properties}} file and do the following: |
dspace.log
file, change the log4j.rootCategory
and log4j.logger.org.dspace
settings to DEBUG
rather than INFO
.cocoon.log
file, change the log4j.logger.org.apache.cocoon
setting to DEBUG
rather than INFO
.log4j.properties
file.