Can't get syslog working

[brettfk]

Despite reading multiple articles/visiting several issues here I cannot get phpIPAM to create and write to a syslog file.

I'm running v1.6.0 on Rocky Linux 8.8 with SElinux in Permissive mode:
[serveradmin@np-it02 ~]$ sestatus
SELinux status: enabled
SELinuxfs mount: /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory: /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name: targeted
Current mode: permissive
Mode from config file: permissive
Policy MLS status: enabled
Policy deny_unknown status: allowed
Memory protection checking: actual (secure)
Max kernel policy version: 33

rsyslog.conf configuration:
auth.alert;auth.warning;auth.debug /var/log/auth.log
if $programname == 'phpipam' then /var/log/phpipam.log
if $programname == 'phpipam-changelog' then /var/log/phpipam-changelog.log

Application has been set to syslog only and syslog and local database, no change.

Any pointers to finding and resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated!