Why is AWS Lightsail Bitnami WordPress NOT Posting to error.log?

Question

Given a "Running" AWS Lightsail Bitnami WordPress instance with these entries in **wp-config.php:**
```
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);
```
Although errors are encountered (*e.g.,* being raised by *Offload SES Lite* plugin), there is no **error.log** file to be found anywhere on the instance (according to **sudo find / -iname "*error.log"**).

After a couple of hours thrashing around reading [NO]-Help files, StackOverflow posts, AWS forum posts, et cetera, I have yet to find either:
1. An explanation (*e.g.,* a quirk in AWS Lightsail? A quirk in Bitnami WordPress?), or
2. A fix.

Any ideas as to how to **force** WordPress to generate an **error.log** file?

Many, *many* thanks in advance,

*Plane Wryter*

Answer

Hi, @Plane_Wryter

With the settings you added, I think the log will be output to "/wp-content/debug.log".

https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/

If you want to output other than debug.log, it seems that you can overwrite the default log setting by the following method.

https://community.bitnami.com/t/moving-the-default-debug-log-in-wp-config/90042

Why is AWS Lightsail Bitnami WordPress NOT Posting to error.log?

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