django error logging : [Errno 13] Permission denied

I'm trying to enable error logging for my site. So I've created a file called log.txt in the root of my project.

/home/xyz/public_html/projectname/log.txt

and in my setting.py in this address:

/home/xyz/public_html/projectname/projectname/settings.py

I have a simple logging setting:

LOGGINGs = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format' : "[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s [%(name)s:%(lineno)s] %(message)s",
            'datefmt' : "%d/%b/%Y %H:%M:%S"
        },
        'simple': {
            'format': '%(levelname)s %(message)s'
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'file': {
            'level': 'DEBUG',
            'class': 'logging.FileHandler',
            'filename': 'log.txt',
            'formatter': 'verbose'
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django': {
            'handlers':['file'],
            'propagate': True,
            'level':'DEBUG',
        },

    }
}

This works fine in my localhostbut when I put it online when I'm trying to start the server I get:

[Tue Nov 22 04:27:37.817043 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 3619] [remote 111.113.21.35:0] ValueError: Unable to configure handler 'file': [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/log.txt'

here is the error stack:

(XID d4tgu5) Database Connect Error: Access denied for user 'leechprotect'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:25.934018 2016] [wsgi:info] [pid 4882] mod_wsgi (pid=4882): Create interpreter 'myproject.com|'.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:25.960785 2016] [wsgi:info] [pid 4882] mod_wsgi (pid=4882): Adding '/home/xyz/public_html/myproject' to path.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:25.961397 2016] [wsgi:info] [pid 4882] mod_wsgi (pid=4882): Adding '/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/' to path.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:25.963133 2016] [wsgi:info] [pid 4882]  mod_wsgi (pid=4882, process='myproject', application='myproject.com|'): Loading WSGI script '/home/xyz/public_html/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py'.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.016998 2016] [wsgi:info] [pid 4925] mod_wsgi (pid=4925): Initializing Python.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.049383 2016] [wsgi:info] [pid 4925] mod_wsgi (pid=4925): Attach interpreter ''.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.386166 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  mod_wsgi (pid=4882): Target WSGI script '/home/xyz/public_html/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py' cannot be loaded as Pytho
n module.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.386312 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  mod_wsgi (pid=4882): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/home/xyz/public_html/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py'.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.386413 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  Traceback (most recent call last):
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.387088 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/config.py", line 557, in configure
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.387135 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      handler = self.configure_handler(handlers[name])
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.387239 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/config.py", line 725, in configure_handler
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.387263 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      result = factory(**kwargs)
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388223 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1006, in __init__
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388268 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388337 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1035, in _open
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388360 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      return open(self.baseFilename, self.mode, encoding=self.encoding)
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388418 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/log.txt'
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388464 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882] 
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388483 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388491 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882] 
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388509 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  Traceback (most recent call last):
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388781 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/home/xyz/public_html/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py", line 16, in <module>
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.388819 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      application = get_wsgi_application()
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389032 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/core/wsgi.py", line 13, in get_wsgi_application
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389064 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      django.setup()
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389245 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/__init__.py", line 17, in setup
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389273 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      configure_logging(settings.LOGGING_CONFIG, settings.LOGGING)
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389521 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/django/utils/log.py", line 71, in configure_logging
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389590 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      logging_config_func(logging_settings)
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389657 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/config.py", line 789, in dictConfig
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389680 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      dictConfigClass(config).configure()
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389726 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/config.py", line 565, in configure
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389745 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      '%r: %s' % (name, e))
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.389784 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  ValueError: Unable to configure handler 'file': [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/log.txt'
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.390725 2016] [wsgi:info] [pid 4882]  mod_wsgi (pid=4882, process='myproject', application='myproject.com|'): Loading WSGI script '/home/xyz/public_html/neg
inpay/myproject/wsgi.py'.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392489 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  mod_wsgi (pid=4882): Target WSGI script '/home/xyz/public_html/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py' cannot be loaded as Pytho
n module.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392630 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  mod_wsgi (pid=4882): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/home/xyz/public_html/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py'.
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392724 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  Traceback (most recent call last):
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392821 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/config.py", line 557, in configure
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392835 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      handler = self.configure_handler(handlers[name])
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392882 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/config.py", line 725, in configure_handler
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392892 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      result = factory(**kwargs)
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392931 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1006, in __init__
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392941 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392976 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/lib/python3.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1035, in _open
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.392985 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]      return open(self.baseFilename, self.mode, encoding=self.encoding)
[Tue Nov 22 04:36:26.393021 2016] [wsgi:error] [pid 4882]  PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/log.txt'

So I thought it's the log file permission so I temporarily set it to 777 until I find a better solution. Now I have:

ls -l /home/xyz/public_html/myproject/log.txt
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 xyz xyz 0 Nov 22 03:19 /home/xyz/public_html/myproject/log.txt

It didn't work then I've searched around and found some have this problem because of SELinux. SO I'VE TURNED THAT OFF AS WELL NOW I HAVE:

[root@static]# sestatus
SELinux status:                 disabled

But still no luck and I'm getting this error

Solution

mod_wsgi probably modifies the current directory to / (root of filesystem)

Your app tries to write to /log.txt, not into the one you created.

Modify the LOGGINGs so that 'filename' is a full filepath, not a relative one

'filename': '/home/xyz/public_html/projectname/log.txt',
Also check that that the system user than runs apache has write rights on that log.txt