Title: Can't get debug information with WP_DEBUG
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Can't get debug information with WP_DEBUG

 *  [ebaillie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ebaillie/)
 * (@ebaillie)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-debug-information-with-wp_debug/)
 * I am trying to do some debugging of my WordPress site, and turned on WP_DEBUG
   to do so. I can’t get it to produce any output at all, either on screen or in
   an error log.
 * Progress so far:
 * In wp-config.php I have:
 * define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
    define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true);
 * I have placed a logging message in a function that I know is being called (because
   I’ve also been messing with the _output_ of that function, and all my changes
   are reflected on screen)
 * error_log(‘EEK’,0);
 * The error_log message doesn’t appear on screen. The debug.log file was not created.
   So I created a debug.log file manually, in wp-content, with +rwx permission for
   everyone, and fiddled with the selinux context, which is now reported as
 * unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0
 * No error messages are being added to the debug.log file, and nothing appears 
   on screen.
 * As it happens (this may end up being the key), I _also_ have a problem on this
   installation that it won’t upload any media, giving the message ‘The uploaded
   file could not be moved to wp-content/uploads/2015/11’. I haven’t been bothering
   about it, since it’s just a test install and the live version works ok. But they
   feel like probably the same underlying issue.
 * (My upload dir also has chmod 777 all over the place, and as free a set of SELinux
   constraints as I can figure out – doesn’t seem to help.)
 * thanks!

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-debug-information-with-wp_debug/)
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