Steps to reproduce

1. So far I've tried:
   1. {home}/access.log
   2. ~/access.log
2. $ webservice --backend=gridengine lighttpd start

Expected behavior
It should work per https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Web/Lighttpd#Web%20logs

Current behavior
Currently it fails like this:

2019-10-31 19:30:19: (log.c.217) server started 
2019-10-31 19:30:19: (log.c.171) opening errorlog '~/access.log' failed: No such file or directory
2019-10-31 19:30:19: (server.c.1269) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.

Either fix the manual with correct variable declaration, or fix the lighttpd module causing this

Configuration
Perl webservice, kmlexport tool