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8. Viewing BlueDragon Logs
There are two log files creating during the execution of BlueDragon templates.
8.1 BlueDragon Server.log files
The BlueDragon Server.log files are located within the logs subdirectory of the
BlueDragon installation directory (the file name is called
BlueDragon Server JX.log
on BlueDragon Server JX, and on Linux/Unix/OS X the words in the log file names are
separated with underscores). These log files track both startup and execution information
for the BlueDragon Server, as well as requests made against the BlueDragon built-in web
server.
Each time the server is restarted, a new log file is created and the log from the previous
run is named
BlueDragon Server.log.1 (and all previous logs are renamed to preserve
chronological sequence). Only 9 of these backup log files are kept, by default, as
controlled in
logging.properties in the config subdirectory of the BlueDragon
installation.
8.2 BlueDragon.Log file
Additional log information about the BlueDragon Server can be found in
bluedragon.log, located within the work subdirectory of the BlueDragon installation
directory. This one file is appended to on subsequent runs of BlueDragon Server. It could
grow quite large with time, so you may want to occasionally edit the file to remove old,
unneeded log entries.
Note that there is now a mechanism available to view the BlueDragon.log file, in the
BlueDragon administration console. See
General>view logfile.
8.3 BlueDragon Runtime Error logs
Unlike ColdFusion, BlueDragon creates a log file for every runtime and compile-time
error, in the
work\temp\rtelogs subdirectory of the BlueDragon installation
directory. The file created for each error contains the same HTML used to render the
error page shown to the end user, including (usually) the dump of all variable scopes, the
file trace, the tag trace, and the date/time of the error.
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