# Error 500: broken path to log an cache directory
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [September 9, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802 "2021-09-09T16:33:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@shaysashcov](https://forum.mautic.org/u/shaysashcov)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802/1 "2021-09-09T16:33:59Z")
**Your software**
My Mautic version is: 3.1.2
My PHP version is: 7.4
My Database type and version is: Mysql
**Your problem**
My problem is: So I tried changing the path to the logs and cache directory manually because it had the path of an older version of mautic. Doing so, I put the wrong path and now can’t access my dashboard. Is there a quick fix to it? Thanks!
These errors are showing in the log:
Steps I have tried to fix the problem:
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### Author:  [@EJL](https://forum.mautic.org/u/EJL)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802/2 "2021-09-09T16:37:04Z")
Look in your mautic/app/config/local.php file
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### Author:  [@shaysashcov](https://forum.mautic.org/u/shaysashcov)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802/3 "2021-09-09T16:39:45Z")
\ 'pdo\_mysql', 'db\_host' =\> 'localhost', 'db\_table\_prefix' =\> 'ar5d\_', 'db\_port' =\> '3306', 'db\_name' =\> 'redacted', 'db\_user' =\> 'redacted', 'db\_password' =\> 'redacted', 'db\_backup\_tables' =\> 0, 'db\_backup\_prefix' =\> 'bak\_', 'db\_server\_version' =\> '5.5.5-10.4.14-MariaDB', 'mailer\_from\_name' =\> 'Site Owner', 'mailer\_from\_email' =\> 'devnull@installatron.com', 'mailer\_transport' =\> 'sendmail', 'mailer\_host' =\> null, 'mailer\_port' =\> null, 'mailer\_user' =\> null, 'mailer\_password' =\> null, 'mailer\_api\_key' =\> null, 'mailer\_encryption' =\> null, 'mailer\_auth\_mode' =\> null, 'mailer\_spool\_type' =\> 'memory', 'mailer\_spool\_path' =\> '%kernel.root\_dir%/var/spool', 'secret\_key' =\> 'redacted', 'site\_url' =\> 'redacted', ); This is what I have in the file. What exactly do I change?
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### Author:  [@silavapi](https://forum.mautic.org/u/silavapi)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802/4 "2021-09-09T16:56:15Z")
@shaysashcov I have redacted the sensitive information in your post - please don’t share credentials in the forum, just replace the sensitive stuff with ‘redacted’ or something similar 🙂
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### Author:  [@shaysashcov](https://forum.mautic.org/u/shaysashcov)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802/5 "2021-09-09T17:00:49Z")
Thank you, sir.
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### Author:  [@silavapi](https://forum.mautic.org/u/silavapi)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802/6 "2021-09-09T17:03:08Z")
You’re welcome, and actually I’m female so no need for the Sir 🙂
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### Author:  [@shaysashcov](https://forum.mautic.org/u/shaysashcov)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802/7 "2021-09-09T17:10:28Z")
My apologies ma’am.
Is there a solution to my problem? 😬
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@EJL](https://forum.mautic.org/u/EJL)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/error-500-broken-path-to-log-an-cache-directory/20802/8 "2021-09-09T19:10:36Z")
Line 27 and 28 in my local.php has cache and logs directory. Your directories won’t be exactly the same because my dev environment is probably different from yours. Centos 8 with Plesk Panel.
```auto
||'cache_path' => '/var/www/vhosts/mymautic.com/app.mymautic.com/var/cache',|
|---|---|
||'log_path' => '/var/www/vhosts/mymautic.com/app.mymautic.com/var/logs',|
```
Have you cleared cache after you changed the paths? If not I would do so.