Site Health false warning for debug log file

[ucsendre]

Hi,

WP core Site Health shows a warning:
Your site is set to log errors to a potentially public file.
My debug settings in wp-config.php:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', '/var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/logs/error-debug-warnings.log');

The site root directory is:

/var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/httpdocs/

The debug log file is outside the site web root folder, therefore I assume it can not be publicly accessible.
It is not a huge issue, only a tiny bug, but I do not like false warnings like this one.

Thank you for the best CMS ever!
<3
Endre

[Clorith]

Hiya, and welcome to the WordPress trac!

We've already got one ticket discussing this, which was closed a while back in #46689, I'm going to mark this one as a duplicate for now, but if there's any new rationales, besides what's already covered in that ticket, please feel free to update them there, although the ticket is closed for now, discussion can still happen and the ticket can be re-opened if new information that warrants it comes up.