A Simple Application To View Apache's error.log file

This program is not related to Apache or the Apache Software Foundation in any way

To Run on GNU/Linux:

./blue-log-viewer.py /var/log/apache2/error.log

If you see something resembling the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./blue-log-viewer.py", line 3, in <module>
    from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'

then on Debian / Ubuntu / XUbuntu / Kubuntu / KDE Neon run:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

or on Fedora (Redhat RPM based) use pip3 instead:

sudo pip3 install pyqt5

...then try again.

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To Run on Mac OSX:

I use https://brew.sh/ to get it to install - you can try pip3 etc

python3.7 blue-log-viewer.py

If you see something resembling the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./blue-log-viewer.py", line 3, in <module>
    from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'

Then run

brew install pyqt5

...then try again.

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To test

This application has some Selenium style functional tests. You can see them by looking in ./features/runs.py and looking at the Cucumber in the comments.

They use Python's native testing as a test harness for running these tests.

To run them do the following:

1. Edit ./blue-log-viewer.py, find the line if False and flip it to true to enable testing (make sure you turn it back to false for production).

2. Make sure localhost port 8032 is available

3. run python3 features/runs.py

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AppImage

This whole program can be compiled into an AppImage!

• To run the build execute: prepair-artwork-and-create-app-image.sh *

• The AppImage doesn't currently have a signed key

• Nor does it have an update mechanism yet

• Nor does it know how to build a png icon from the svg so ./artwork/blue-log-viewer.png is missing

* Running the build script will use Docker to start a svg to png converter for making the icon

To bypass icon creation run ./tools/app-image-create.sh (Run ./icon-svg-to-png.sh to just build the png)