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am I getting a 500 Internal Server Error message? Browse by products and services DV and VPS Hosting Grid Shared Hosting WordPress Hosting Legacy DV Hosting Applies to: All examples of good error messages Service Types Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: Plain text editor, generic error message FTP client Overview 500 Internal Server Error is a generic error message, given when no more specific
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message is suitable. There are a number of causes for a 500 Internal Server Error to display in a web browser. Below is a sample error message. This article provides
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information on the most common causes. Check the Error Logs! With any error message, particularly one as broad as the 500 Internal Server Error, you will first want to check any Apache and PHP error logs for your server. These logs can provide valuable context related to any code failures or other potential causes of a site failure. For generic error meaning information on where to find the logs for your server, please see: Where are the access_log and error_log for my server? Error with an .htaccess file If you are using a .htaccess on your site, it may be interfering with the web page you are trying to load into your browser. Please double check the .htaccess configuration. Any syntax errors will cause a 500 Internal Server Error message to be displayed instead of your website. To confirm whether a misconfiguration .htaccess is the cause of the 500 Internal Server error, either remove or rename the .htaccess file temporarily and then try to reload the page. See also: Using .htaccess rewrite rules Using .htaccess files PHP Coding Timing Out If your PHP script makes external network connections, the connections may time out. If too many connections are attempted and time out, this will cause a "500 Internal Server Error." To prevent these time outs and errors, you'll want to make sure that PHP scripts be coded with some timeout rules. Typically, however, catching a timeout erro
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hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges 500 error message examples Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each generic failure error message other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Possible causes of Generic Server Error message for SoapException up vote 0 down vote favorite I am currently accessing a web service. The only message I got from the https://mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204644990/why-am-i-getting-a-500-internal-server-error-message thrown exception is "Server Error." During the past tests, the only exceptions I encountered have HTTP error codes in it i.e. 401 Unauthorized, 403 Forbidden, etc. This one doesn't have it and it is really generic. Any experiences on what the possible causes are? The exception occurs when CredentialCache.Add is called. I am using Basic authentication type. Thanks in advance for any help related to this question. I am using C#. c# .net web-services soap share|improve this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1129989/possible-causes-of-generic-server-error-message-for-soapexception asked Jul 15 '09 at 7:48 yoitsfrancis 2,087113368 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 0 down vote accepted Server Error is HTTP error code 500. It usually means that there was an unhandled exception on the server. Check the event logs on the server side. share|improve this answer answered Jul 16 '09 at 3:17 John Saunders 138k20177323 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote I would read this as an problem on the service provider's end. Maybe a temporary problem? I would want to look in the logs and other diagnostics for that Web Service provider - easy if it's yours, or they are just down the corridor maybe. Otherwise I hope you have a supportive relationship! It will be annoying for you if it transpires that some particular combination of your input data is causing the issue and the error isn't telling you that. share|improve this answer answered Jul 15 '09 at 7:55 djna 42.3k85383 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Email and Password Post as a guest Name Email Post as a guest Name Email discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged c# .net web-ser
requires me to understand things like: What action is being performed. What caused the error. What action the user should take next. Armed with this information I can produce an error that informs the user of exactly: What http://www.uacolumn.com/generic_errors/ went wrong Why it went wrong How to correct the problem The example above is https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E39820_01/doc.11121/gateway_docs/content/fault_generic.html a good example of a bad error message. It tells you nothing apart from what you already know. A good error message should be like a mini version of some API documentation. I adopt a strategy of having a title focusing on the product area (e.g. a licensed product, major functionality area) followed by a sub heading of the process error message being performed at the time of the error. Finally comes the error text and any corrective action. Things get a little more difficult with generic error messages. Today I had a scenario pitched to me where we required a catch all message for scenarios we had no control over. My initial reaction was to push back and demand for a specific set of more specific errors. The users would thank us for this. That's OK so error message examples long as we know what has caused the error. What happens if you don’t. Say the cleaner has knocked their vacuum cleaner into the application server’s plug socket. Maybe the System Administrator installed a patch which has affected communication between the parts of the application’s infrastructure. In such scenarios, your application, or the end user’s machine isn’t going to know about that, but the process they are performing will fail. Yuk! What then? Does this example work? On one level, yes it does. It is technically accurate. It not only states that an error has occurred, but states it that it doesn't know why. It could be worded better mind. For example, by "unknown" is it that the error is unknown. The only thing missing is what the user should do. It goes against my better judgment, but I came up with, "An error has occurred. Try again, but if the issue persists, contact your System Administrator." My logic was that if there is an issue locally at their end, they should be able to find it. If the problem is elsewhere, the System Administrator would contact our Support Desk. Share with:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to s
to convey error information to the client based on the message type (for example, SOAP or JSON). By default, the API Gateway returns a very basic error to the client when a message filter fails. You can add the Generic Error filter to a policy to return more meaningful error information to the client based on the message type. When the Generic Error filter is configured, the API Gateway examines the incoming message and attempts to infer the type of message to be returned. For example, for an incoming SOAP message, the API Gateway sends an appropriate SOAP response (for example, SOAP 1.1 or 1.2) using the SOAP fault processor. For an incoming JSON message, the API Gateway sends an appropriate JSON response. If the inference process fails, the API Gateway sends a SOAP message by default. For example error messages, see the JSON Error and SOAP Fault topics. You can also transform the error message returned by applying an XSLT stylesheet. The API Gateway implicitly transforms the incoming message into XML before applying the stylesheet to the message. Important For security reasons, it is good practice to return as little information as possible to the client. However, for diagnostic reasons, it is useful to return as much information to the client as possible. Using the Generic Error filter, administrators have the flexibility to configure just how much information to return to clients, depending on their individual requirements. General Configuration Configure the following general settings: Name: Enter an appropriate name for this filter. HTTP Response Code Status Enter the HTTP response code status for this Generic Error filter. This ensures that a meaningful response is sent to the client in the case of an error occurring in a configured policy. Defaults to 500 (Internal Server Error). For a complete list of status codes, see the HTTP Specification. Generic Error Contents The following configuration options are available in this section: Show detailed explanation of error: If this option is selected, a detailed explanation of the Generic Error is returned in the error message. This makes it possible to suppress the reason for the exception in a tightly locked down system (the reason is displayed as message blocked in the Generic Error). Defaults to the value of the ${circuit.failure.reason} message attribute selector. Show filter execution path When this option is selected, the API Gateway returns a Generic Error containing the list of filters r