# All apps on server giving a silent 500 error page

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-apps-on-server-giving-a-silent-500-error-page/171504>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 3, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-apps-on-server-giving-a-silent-500-error-page/171504 "2009-07-03T16:43:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![BJ\_Neilsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@BJ\_Neilsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BJ_Neilsen)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/all-apps-on-server-giving-a-silent-500-error-page/171504/1 "2009-07-03T16:43:28Z")

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Hi all,

I am so completely stumped on this one. A week ago I upgraded to  
Passenger 2.2.4 and subsequently realized that my production rails app  
was no longer working properly, it was delivering the 500 error page.  
After digging around a bit, I couldn’t find any errors being logged to  
either the Apache error log or my app specific production/server logs.  
I then posted on the passenger google group about this issue, and was  
told to downgrade to passenger 2.1.3 because the issue was not  
reproducible. Downgrading fixed the issue (or so it seemed) because  
the app was working once again. I made a few modifications to the app,  
committed to git, pushed to the server, and restarted. All of a  
sudden, the app wasn’t working again.

At this point I decided to try out Nginx/Thin as a web server  
(assuming it was the apache/passenger bridge making the silent  
errors). I’ve spent most of today getting the thin/nginx stack  
working, and now that it is (I’ve tested a static test site), I’m  
still receiving this 500 page. This makes me wonder if it’s something  
I’m doing wrong in Rails, or, heaven forbid, a Rails bug that I’ve  
discovered (doubtful). Also, Running my app in development on my  
Macbook Pro works just fine. I’ve even tried creating a fresh rails  
app from scratch on production, and it is producing the same silent  
500.

I am completely and utterly stumped. Just to reiterate, I cannot find  
a single issue being logged to any access or error logs that would  
clue me in. Please assist. This has even made me _think_ about going  
back to PHP. 😉

My setup is as follows: Fedora core 9 (Slicehost VPS 256), Rails  
2.3.2, Nginx 0.7.61, Thin 1.2.2, Apache 2.2.9, Passenger 2.2.4.

Thanks,  
BJ Neilsen