error_log

[yosemite]

inside my gallery root is a 16.8 meg error_log. is it ok to delete this?

[MMCM]

16.8 MB seems fairly large. If it's the error log of your apache server, I would take a look at it's contents, to see why it grew that big.
If you don't care, delete it.
Well, if I take a look at my error_log, it grew to 3,2MB starting at May 1st, too.
Most entries complain about missing files from EE 1.5 :-)
Probably generated by search engines...

[wkitty42]

this is one reason why one can/should employ .htaccess files and rewrite rules... when i was ready to make the switch, after having already installed eE v2.x and tested it, i created the necessary rewrite rules in a .htaccess file which redirected all queries for the old eE v1.5 stuff to the new installation... there are/were only a few things that didn't cross directly and i simply 404'd or 410'd them in the .htaccess file... now i don't get any calls for the older stuff and all the search engines that are worth anything have converted all the existing entries to the new ones and my site(s) didn't loose any "placement" or "points" in their results lists...

[yosemite]

wkitty42

the error log is in the ee 1.5 directory and i am going to delete it. can you elaborate on what you would put in a .htaccess file to prevent this?

thanks

[wkitty42]

not really... it highly depends on how you were set up before... in my case, i went from a subdirectory under my main domain to a subdomain... in otherwords, me eE went from mydomain/ee to mygallery/ if that makes any sense.. with more info, i could probably provide a better answer... the main thing is to redirect the old URLs to the new locations... since most stuff is the same from the outside, it should be a difference between something similar... even mydomain/ee to mydomain/newee should be easy enough to redirect...