# Getting rid of "Application error (Rails) " Apache + Mongrel

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rid-of-application-error-rails-apache-mongrel/90458>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 29, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rid-of-application-error-rails-apache-mongrel/90458 "2007-03-29T00:22:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-rid-of-application-error-rails-apache-mongrel/90458/1 "2007-03-29T00:22:27Z")

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All,

When unexpected errors occur, we see a page with just “Application error  
(Rails)” in our production environment (Apache + 3 mongrels).

How do you change the display to show something decent.

It doesn’t appear to be 500.html in /public, since the message is just

“Application error (Rails)”

not

"

# Application error

Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

".

Or am I supposed to change /public/500.html and I’m just missing  
something?

Seems to me like the error occurs outside of the app.

Thanks,  
Wes