What is the webserver error log?
Your Gallery runs as a PHP application on a webserver and when there is a fatal error, e.g. due to insufficient resources (memory, diskspace, execution time, ..), there is no chance Gallery can recover since the web-server just terminates the request. Symptoms usually are: • Blank / empty pages in the web-browser or • Browser-specific error pages (not to confuse with the Gallery application level error pages which always show a nicely formatted error page) or • When clicking on a link, the page doesn’t change at all or • The browser offers you to download the current page (main.php) or • You might see something like Fatal error: Maximum execution time of or other PHP errors or • HTTP 500 internal server error pages Webservers usually save such error events in their error log. This is very helpful to diagnose problems since the error log usually contains more information than what the symptom might reveal. Apache stores this log as a file. As a webhosting customer, you can usually view
