[Privoxy-users] Log file access error dialog on Windows

[Fabian Keil]

Ian Silvester via Privoxy-users <privoxy-users at lists.privoxy.org> wrote on 2024-09-02 at 13:00:55:

> I'm using Privoxy on a Windows 11 box for the first time. The initial
> install went fine, I configured the proxy settings in Firefox and was
> off to the races. The next time I booted the machine however, I get a
> dialog pop up that says:
> 
> Fatal error: init_error_log(): can't open logfile: '.\privoxy.log'
> 
> Privoxy then closes down. Is this is known issue with a workaround?

Changing the logdir to a directory Privoxy can write to using
an absolute path should solve this.

It currently seems to be set to the relative path "." which means
Privoxy tries to write to the current working directory where it
doesn't seem to have write access in your case.

Are you running Privoxy as a service?

Fabian
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