Misleading log message in logfile after setup: touch() unabe to create file owncloud.log

[RandolfCarter]

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up a new owncloud installation
2. Check the owncloud.log

Expected behaviour

No log entries, or at least none indicating any problem if everything went ok.

Actual behaviour

Even if everything went perfectly, there is a message stating that the log file could not be written (in the logfile itself) - quite the paradox ;) (see below for message).
Also reported here: https://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=25393

Server configuration

Operating system: Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 LTS
Web server: Apache 2.4.9 (Ubuntu)
Database: MariaDB 10.0.14
PHP version: 5.5.9
ownCloud version: 7.0.3 / 7.0.4
Updated from an older ownCloud or fresh install: fresh install

List of activated apps:
default apps from community edition

The content of config/config.php:
Pristine config.php as written by setup

Are you using external storage, if yes which one: none

Are you using encryption: no

Client configuration

(among others):
Browser: Firefox 34.05
Operating system: Windows 8.1

Logs

Web server error log

nothing related

ownCloud log (data/owncloud.log)

{"app":"PHP","message":"touch(): Unable to create file \/www\/owncloud\/data\/owncloud.log because No such file or directory at \/www\/owncloud\/lib\/private\/log\/owncloud.php#49","level":3,"time":"2014-11-19T18:36:08+00:00"}

Browser log

nothing relevant

[karlitschek]

@icewind1991 What do you think?

[DeepDiver1975]

while this is not really meaningful - not really a critical issue. let's have a look at this some point in time.

[RandolfCarter]

I agree that it's not important, just wanted to have it documented. Maybe a junior job? Or maybe I'll get around to look into this myself at some point ;)

[Redbot]

I fixed it by moving the log file off of my external drive.

in config.php,

'logfile' => '/var/www/owncloud/log/owncloud.log',

chown www-data:www-data to the log directory as well.

I believe this may be due to "touch" returning permission denied on external drives. Moving to an internal drive fixed the problem.

[l3iggs]

I'm seeing this issue. I'm not using an external drive.

[mobamoba]

The solution is to create a "data" directory within your Windows owncloud directory. For whatever reason, that directory doesn't exist but it's the directory where Owncloud expects to find the log.

If someone is taking over to debug this note the recent discussion/comments in #15992

[extide]

I am also seeing this issue, it seems to happen when I have any logging settings (like log type or log file) in the config.php -- if I just remove them entirely (so as to use the defaults) it seems to work -- most of the time at least.

[MorrisJobke]

This error is gone, but there is now a new one - see #13736