I am trying to create pretty error pages for my application by following this cookbook article. Sometimes a bug slips in, which causes the application to return a single line: 503 Service Unavailable. It would make my life a whole lot easier if only I could see the underlying error or exception thrown. Switching over to the development environment doesn't help either as the error templates are only used in production.
I figured out that I needed to add TwigBundle to assetic's configuration to use javascript and css assets. Problems like this are really hard to debug in the production environment.
Setting the debug mode to true in my front controller doesn't help, since production error templates get replaced by development templates.
EDIT
Thanks to Mike Purcell I managed to retrieve the errors provided. I got
Uncaught exception 'Symfony\Component\Routing\Exception\ResourceNotFoundException' in /[snip]/app/cache/prod/appprodUrlMatcher.php:669
Turns out the framework should be handling the exception, but in the case of a possible error inside the error Twig template, it just decides to throw a 503 error.
How do I turn on error reporting for the production environment in a Symfony2 application?
I'm tired of guessing what's wrong and clearing the cache. What is the best way to debug Twig's error templates in production?
The best way to see what errors are being thrown in production is to configure Monolog to email the errors too you or alternatively to a file.
Have a look at the Symfony2 Cookbook on emailing logs http://symfony.com/doc/master/cookbook/logging/monolog_email.html
To make the error pages look nicer have a look at this cookbook entry on how to do that http://symfony.com/doc/master/cookbook/controller/error_pages.html
There are open source tools specifically built for error reporting like Sentry, which has a native Symfony client.
disclaimer: I work for Sentry
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I've been searching symfony docs and SO for an explanation of what changing symfony's debug flag to true does exactly. I feel stupid for not finding it ... can anyone provide a link to the doc?
Read Working with environments for more informations about the debug.
You are right, the Symfony Documentation related to the Debug component will help for use it but not give detailed explanations about the features added to the environment.
If you use debug=true in your environment, you will get the debug-bar containig all informations related to your environment, and other features related to debug in a PHP framework.
I will list the main additional features added by enabling debug :
Toolbar added with all informations about requests, security, deprecations, translations, configuration, and errors in your current request.
Cache files are dynamically rebuilt on each request.
Enable debugging features in packages and third-party libraries based on debug (such as Twig dump)
Errors displaying are no longer managed by the debug, it's just configured in the front-controller (e.g. app_dev.php and app.php)
Informations coming from Configuration and environments
Symfony documentation is very vast and it's surely not the bigger part, but very important to know, I discover it too.
I am attempting to deploy a change to a legacy ASP.NET solution. I have copied over the views and css files, but when I try to copy over a modified assembly, I get this error when the application runs:
Compiler Error Message: BC30456: 'InitializeCulture' is not a member of 'ASP.dashboard_aspx'.
I understand that the site may need to recompile itself, but it is complaining about a view I haven't changed. It is also griping about missing member InitializeCulture which I can't even find a reference for in my code.
The site works fine in debug and when deployed locally BTW.
Any ideas?
In the end I lost patience with trying to deploy what I thought had changed and simply published the website to a directory and then copied that over en masse.
Clearly there is some code or linkage somewhere that I had overlooked but the error message is a complete red herring.
I am trying to run one of the sample programs given by EditableGrid to run on my localhost with asp.net. It is that of loading json data example. It throws an exception saying:
GET http://localhost:60218/grid.json?22895 404 (Not Found)
This is the line where it occurs:
editableGrid.loadJSON("grid.json");
The JSON file is placed in my solution hierarchy as well..I am new to editablegrids, so have no clue what is going wrong here?? I also do not happen to find any or no help on editablegrids, should I be using this for grids? Or should I be looking into other plugins? Other that JQGrid...More or less similar to editablegrid..
I think the reason is very clear - the EditableGrid is run under php !
If you wish to mix php with asp.net you may try it, but is not work for the small web server that visual studio use for test and debug.
I am using Flex builder 3, BlazeDS, and Java with Spring and Hibernate framework. I using the remote object to load a string from spring's configuration files. But in testing, I found this fault event like this:
RPC Fault
faultString="java.lang.NullPointerException"
faultCode="Server.Processing"
faultDetail="null"
I have checked the configuration in remote-config.xml and services-config.xml. But it looks good. Some people have talked about this problem around the Internet and I think you can help me and them.
I am using these environment:
Flex Builder 3
BlazeDS 3.2.0
JBoss server
Full stacktrace:
[RPC Fault faultString="java.lang.NullPointerException" faultCode="Server.Processing" faultDetail="null"]
at mx.rpc::AbstractInvoker/http://www.adobe.com/2006/flex/mx/internal::faultHandler()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\AbstractInvoker.as:220]
at mx.rpc::Responder/fault()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\Responder.as:53]
at mx.rpc::AsyncRequest/fault()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\rpc\AsyncRequest.as:103]
at NetConnectionMessageResponder/statusHandler()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\messaging\channels\NetConnectionChannel.as:569]
at mx.messaging::MessageResponder/status()[C:\autobuild\3.2.0\frameworks\projects\rpc\src\mx\messaging\MessageResponder.as:222]
The java.lang.NullPointerException indicates an error being thrown on the server. To debug this, active debug logging on BlazeDS in the services-config.xml file. You should see detailed debug information in the server console.
When using the BlazeDS/Spring integration take care that you will need to use a custom exception translator in order to obtain meaningful exceptions. Please read this document http://static.springsource.org/spring-flex/docs/1.0.x/reference/html/ch02s08.html
In your case the error is not related to some configuration problems, it seems that is thrown inside your java method. Use a debugger in order to diagnose properly.
We are getting intermittent problems on a production server that we cannot recreate.
There are two very strange things about the issue. Firstly it's a method not found error on the constructor (ctor) for an exception handling helper class and secondly we have custom errors switched on for remote users and this property is being ignored.
The detail of the error is:
Server Error in '/MyWebsite' Application.
Method not found: 'Void MyExceptionHelperClass..ctor (System.Exception)'.
...
Exception Details: System.MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'Void MyExceptionHelperClass..ctor (System.Exception)'.
...
The stack trace is pretty unhelpful.
My thoughts are that there may be an out-of-memory error or something like that that is killing the page. When the exception handling code kicks in it tries to create an exception object which fails for the same reason giving this error.
However this is wild speculation. We are waiting for the event logs to see whether anything is amiss with the server but in the meantime does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
UPDATE:
It has proven difficult to get information out of the team responsible for the production servers but I have managed to find out that as far as load balancing is concerned, this site is currently only running on one server (this can be made to switch over onto another if necessary). Given that this is an intermittent problem and there is only one server involved, then I find it difficult to believe that this could be an assembly issue. Surely if it was then the problem would occur every time?
If you see this error happening on a site that has custom errors turned on, then the error is happening in the custom error handling routine itself.
From the look of the .NET error message it appears that your routine is expecting a constructor that accepts an exception by reference - your comment above shows a constructor that accepts by value.
Check carefully that there isn't a stale version of an assembly in your system somewhere. These can lurk in the Temporary ASP.NET Files folder; you'll need to do an "iisreset /stop" before you can clear them out.
In that regard it's always a good idea to make sure that AssemblyInfo.cs is set up to automatically stamp version numbers in some way. We have our version numbers tied to our source code repository system and CI build box so we can tell exactly what was in what assembly really easily.
I would use elmah: http://code.google.com/p/elmah/ to hopefully give you a bit more insight into the issue. It is free and can be used on an existing site without any recompilation. Try it - and post back if the issue is still happening.
As others have also mentioned, I would suspect that your site is somehow using an out of date version of an assembly. Something you could try doing is a full Precompile of your site before deploying to your production server. This ensures that ASP .Net doesn't dynamically compile the site on the fly, and therefore should mean that it's using completely up to date code throughout.
Do you have a no parameter public constructor defined for MyExceptionHelperClass in your code? Or is the class meant to only have static methods, in which case it should be a static class.
public class MyExceptionHelperClass()
{
public MyExceptionHelperClass() { }
}
Unfortunately, this may be one of those cases where the error message is of little to no value. In my experience, this general class of exception may be the result of either a configuration issue or bad logic aroung threading/app domains. For example, I have seen similar issues upon attempting to load the same assembly into an app domain more than once.
You mention that this is difficult to reproduce. If it's only happening on one server in the production farm it's more likely to be a config issue (with that machine). If it's happening on more than one server than it could be either config or threading.
It might be worth spending some time looking at the larger code base around the areas mentioned above. The root cause may not be in this class. Good luck!
I think it's a Framework issue with keeping compiled versions consistency. It's common to see same sort of errors while updating site sources repeatedly. Just try something like
net stop iisadmin /y && del /q /f /s "%systemroot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\*.*" && iisreset
I encountered this exception today on a webforms page. I found a solution, but I'm not sure why it worked.
Nest the code behind in a 'Namespace [YourNamespace]' tag.
Add the namespace to the html Page tag's Inherits property in the aspx page 'Inherits="PathStart.YourNameSpace.ClassName"'.
Rebuild
Navigate to the page again and you should not encounter the exception.
After following the steps above I reverted the changes and did not re-encounter the exception.