Rails - Mar 2006 - error 500 page not showing on production (lighty)

Hi,

Do I need to configure something to get my custom public/500.html page 
showing on my production server (lighttpd)? My custom 404 page is 
showing but when I hit an exception I just see the default (Applcation 
Error) message.

Also, is it possible to include some ERB in error404 and 500 pages?

Jeroen

Jeroen Houben wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do I need to configure something to get my custom public/500.html page 
> showing on my production server (lighttpd)? My custom 404 page is 
> showing but when I hit an exception I just see the default (Applcation 
> Error) message.
> 
> Also, is it possible to include some ERB in error404 and 500 pages?
Found some answers here: 
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoConfigureTheErrorPageForYourRailsApp

but I still wonder why there''s 500.html in /public ? Does this ever get
called?

Jeroen

you will need to edit the .htaccess file:

comment out the line
ErrorDocument 500 "<h2>Application error</h2>Rails application
failed to start properly"

and add the line:
ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

that should do you well.

dorian

Jeroen Houben wrote:
> Jeroen Houben wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do I need to configure something to get my custom public/500.html page 
>> showing on my production server (lighttpd)? My custom 404 page is 
>> showing but when I hit an exception I just see the default (Applcation 
>> Error) message.
>>
>> Also, is it possible to include some ERB in error404 and 500 pages?
> 
> Found some answers here: 
>
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoConfigureTheErrorPageForYourRailsApp
> 
> 
> but I still wonder why there''s 500.html in /public ? Does this
ever get
> called?
> 
> Jeroen
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