Title: [Plugin: WP-OpenID] How to enable logging/debugging?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-OpenID] How to enable logging/debugging?

 *  [Erunafailaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erunafailaro/)
 * (@erunafailaro)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-openid-how-to-enable-loggingdebugging/)
 * Hello Board!
 * Can anyone tell me how the debugging can be disabled for this plugin? How do 
   I configure the location of the logfile?
 * I’m trying to find out why Yahoo-(https)-OpenIds cannot login on my blog.
 * Regs
    Erunafailoro
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/openid/)
 * p.s. I’m using WP 2.6.2 and WPOpenID 2.2.2

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 *  [oeconomist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oeconomist/)
 * (@oeconomist)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-openid-how-to-enable-loggingdebugging/#post-855800)
 * Your subject refers to _en_abling debugging, but then the body of the message
   asks how to _dis_able it. I’m going to infer that you want _en_able it, as debugging
   should be off by default, and if you enabled it then you should know that, to
   disable that, you’d just reverse your action.
 * Anyway, insert
 * > `define('WP_DEBUG', true);`
 *  into `wp-config.php` to enable bugging. You may find yourself unable to log-
   out with `WP_DEBUG` set to `true`, so the process of turning debugging on and
   off might require FTPing (or the equivalent).
 *  Thread Starter [Erunafailaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erunafailaro/)
 * (@erunafailaro)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-openid-how-to-enable-loggingdebugging/#post-855830)
 * Thx oeconomist!
 * In fact, I intended to ask how to _en_able the debugging. Sorry for the typo 
   🙂
 * I already figured out this option for `wp-config.php`.
 * After I turned this option to `true`, I saw a lot of debug-output from various
   plugins, but unfortunately no output from wpopenid (although it is enabled). 
   Is there a way to distinguish openid-debug-messages from the messages of other
   plugins (e.g. a special prefix etc)?
 * I was hoping to find the cause why logging in with a Yahoo!-OpenID was not possible.
   Is the cause or detailed error-message for a failed login-attempt written to 
   the debug-output?
 * I found out later -without debugging- that I had a lot of outdated certificates
   in my cURL-installation and my provider updated them for me. This fixed the problem.
 *  [oeconomist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oeconomist/)
 * (@oeconomist)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-openid-how-to-enable-loggingdebugging/#post-855866)
 * You really want diagnostics that refer to
 * > _blogDirectory_`/wp-content/plugins/`**`openid`**`/`
 *  rather than to “**wp**openid”. If you’re not seeing those, then either your 
   PHP installation is mean-spirited, or the problem doesn’t lie in wp-openid.
 *  [Will Norris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wnorris/)
 * (@wnorris)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-openid-how-to-enable-loggingdebugging/#post-855872)
 * previous versions of the plugin did some weird things in regards to logging. 
   That has been greatly simplified in the latest release (v3.0), so that the plugin
   now uses the standard PHP error log. It also respects the WP_DEBUG option, such
   that it should log a little extra info when that is turned on.
 * That being said, the logging in v3.0 is rather anemic right now. The plugin has
   been greatly improved, so there should hopefully be less need for digging through
   log files in the first place… but we still need to add a lot more logging for
   those time when it’s necessary.
 * Try using the v3.0 release and see if that works for you. If not, let me know
   and I’ll see if I can help debug things a bit.

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 * [HTTPS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/https/)
 * [logfile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/logfile/)
 * [logging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/logging/)
 * [wpopenid](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wpopenid/)

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 * Last reply from: [Will Norris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wnorris/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-openid-how-to-enable-loggingdebugging/#post-855872)
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