Should I be able to see logs on my host system by default?

[YassinS]

Hey,

I could verify that logs are written inside of the container but there doesn't seem to be a way to view those logs through a volume. Is this expected behavior? If so why and is there a good reason to keep it that way? If not how could I change this to display my log files on my host system so that I don't have to ssh into the container fr logs?

Thank you a lot already, I am still learning :)

[7-zete-7]

Hi @YassinS!

By default, logs are written, to simplify things, to Docker container logs. You can access these logs with the docker compose logs command (see https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/compose/logs/).

In the dev environment, logs are also written to the var/logs/<environment>.log file. To access these logs on the host machine, you need to add a mount point to the var directory:

 # compose.override.yaml
 services:
   php:
     volumes:
       # ...
+      - ./var:/app/var

If you use PhpStorm, I can also recommend mark the mounted directory as excluded (so that PhpStock does not index this directory; see https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/excluding-files-from-project.html).

[YassinS]

Thank you so much. I'll try it soon and see if I can figure it out 🙏🏼