How to get debug output to work?

Questions
1

Hi.

I’m running the Kanboard docker image.
I’m trying to get debug output for a plugin I am trying to write, but I get no output.
I think I am doing this as I should, so idk what is wrong.

docker-compose.yml:

version: ‘2’
services:
kanboard:
image: kanboard/kanboard:latest
expose:
- 80
volumes:
- kanboard_data:/var/www/app/data
- kanboard_plugins:/var/www/app/plugins
- kanboard_ssl:/etc/nginx/ssl

nginx:
image: ‘skunkiferous/staticsite:1.1’
ports:
- ‘80:80’
- ‘443:443’
depends_on:
- kanboard
volumes:
kanboard_data:
driver: local
kanboard_plugins:
driver: local
kanboard_ssl:
driver: local

So, checking the data volume:

docker run --rm -i -v=kanboard_kanboard_data:/tmp/myvolume busybox cat /tmp/myvolume/config.php

define(‘DEBUG’, true);
define(‘LOG_DRIVER’, ‘file’); // Other drivers are: syslog, stdout, stderr, system or file
define(‘LOG_FILE’, ‘/var/www/app/data/debug.log’);

docker run --rm -i -v=kanboard_kanboard_data:/tmp/myvolume busybox ls -l /tmp/myvolume

total 536
-rw-r–r-- 1 100 101 152 Jun 10 11:04 config.php
-rw-r–r-- 1 100 101 540672 Jun 10 11:45 db.sqlite

docker run --rm -i -v=kanboard_kanboard_data:/tmp/myvolume busybox find /tmp/myvolume

/tmp/myvolume
/tmp/myvolume/db.sqlite
/tmp/myvolume/config.php

I tried refreshing, deleting tasks, moving tasks. Nothing; no debug.log. Am I looking in the wrong place?

I know Kanboard is reading the config.php, because I see it’s content at the top of every browser window.

What am I doing wrong?

2

I use the docker image as well, and do nothing special, all the errors show up in my stderr logs

3

So, I’ve changed config.php to only contain:

define(‘DEBUG’, true);

But, “docker logs” still shows nothing. Refreshing the page, creating an issue, deleting the issue, nothing. No output. The only thing I see, is my new config.php content at the top of every page. Docker logs from the nginx website, which proxies all requests, works just fine.

4

Hmmmm, I don’t even have DEBUG ‘true’…completely remove config.php and just using defaults, I still get logs.

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See. I should probably do something about that missing automatic action…

docker logs <Container> on host server gives me the same log info

5

oh, my log driver is set to system…Think that’s default though.

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6

Aha! It seems for the config.php to work, you have to add the arcane PHP preparatory incantation on the first line: “<?php”

Did I mention I’m a PHP noob? :smiley:

I think one could add a “reminder” about that in the “Docs » Administrator’s Guide » Configuration File” section…