Bug #8634
closed
When API fails, Apache is overriding the error message with a generic one
Description
Consider the following API call:
curl -s -k -H "X-API-Token: MY-TOKEN" "https://localhost/rudder/api/latest/changeRequests" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>500 Server Error</title> </head><body> <h1>Server Error</h1> <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.</p> <p>Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.</p> <p>More information about this error may be available in the server error log.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) Server at localhost Port 443</address> </body></html>
The error 500 answer doesn't tell me WHY it failed (in this case, changerequests are disabled). But it should not fail like that, and there are cases where it fails AND changerequests are enabled.
Logs are not helping:
/var/log/rudder/apache2/access.log 192.168.90.35 - - [06/Jul/2016:11:21:30 +0200] "GET /rudder/api/latest/changeRequests HTTP/1.1" 500 2144 "-" "curl/7.43.0"
and no other log are returning anything :(
Updated by François ARMAND over 8 years ago
- Subject changed from When API fails, there are no logs explaining WHY it fails :( to When API fails, Apache is overriding the error message with a generic one
- Assignee changed from Vincent MEMBRÉ to Alexis Mousset
- Priority changed from 1 (highest) to 3
Updated by François ARMAND over 8 years ago
The URLs that should not be overriden are:
/rudder/api/*
Updated by Alexis Mousset over 8 years ago
- Status changed from New to In progress
Updated by Alexis Mousset over 8 years ago
The ProxyErrorOverride configuration is done at global or virtualhost level, so we need a separate virtual host for API to fix this.
Updated by Alexis Mousset over 8 years ago
- Status changed from In progress to Discussion
Updated by Alexis Mousset over 8 years ago
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7588229/apache-mod-proxy-proxyerroroverride-for-specific-url-patterns and https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyerroroverride. As this is a touchy change, we won't do this before the next minor release.
Updated by Benoît PECCATTE over 8 years ago
In apache 2.4, ProxyErrorOverride has a directory context and this can be done without a new vhost.
And it is also possible with a double proxy, a vhost that redirects to an override vhost or a nooverride vhost depending on the URL.
Updated by Jonathan CLARKE over 8 years ago
- Translation missing: en.field_tag_list set to Quick and important, Ease of use
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 2.11.23 to 2.11.24
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 2.11.24 to 308
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 308 to 3.1.14
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 3.1.14 to 3.1.15
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 3.1.15 to 3.1.16
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ about 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 3.1.16 to 3.1.17
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ almost 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 3.1.17 to 3.1.18
Updated by Alexis Mousset almost 8 years ago
This has been fixed for apache 2.4 in #7134, but the same method cannot be used on apache 2.2.
Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ almost 8 years ago
- Target version changed from 3.1.18 to 3.1.19
Updated by François ARMAND over 7 years ago
- Related to Bug #10295: Log an error when Rest API fails added
Updated by Benoît PECCATTE over 7 years ago
- Status changed from Discussion to Rejected
This has been fixed for apache 2.4 in #7134, but it cannot be fixed for apache 2.2.