# Help restarting smpl.se, application failure, Radiant, Site5

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-restarting-smpl-se-application-failure-radiant-site5/117691>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [October 19, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-restarting-smpl-se-application-failure-radiant-site5/117691 "2007-10-19T13:08:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-restarting-smpl-se-application-failure-radiant-site5/117691/1 "2007-10-19T13:08:30Z")

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Below is a ticket i filed with Site5 a few minutes ago, but I think  
maybe the Radiant pros will be better at helping me out.

My site [http://smpl.se/](http://smpl.se/) has broken, giving me the error:

Application error (Apache)

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

The admin tools for Radiant still work, however. This leads me to  
belive that I typed something in a snoppet or layout or page that  
broke something.

Only trouble I don’t even know where to begin looking. I don’t know  
where the log files are, and if I found them I wouldn’t know what  
they mean.

I want to restart Rails or Apache or fcgi or whatever, but I don’t  
know what I run or how to do this in my particular instance (Site5,  
some old version of Rails etc.).

I run Radiant 0.6 i think.

I’d be happy to exchange services and help out if somebody can help  
me get [http://smpl.se/](http://smpl.se/) up, and get everything configured correctly,  
running good versions of everything.

Below is my support ticket to Site5.

Regards,

Martin O.

removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

=== Ticket Body ===

I’m a rookie at configuring stuff like this and I’m not a Linux power  
user. I may also have messed something up by doing something stupid  
in Radiant CMS.

I have managed to get my site up and running with Ruby on Rails and  
Radiant CMS by reading guides and following few threads in your  
excellent forums.

I have been happy though response times have sometimes been long  
(don’t know if this is an app or network issue). I’m in creative mode  
so I’ve been tweaking things on the site using only the admin-console  
for Radiant and publishing loads of stuff.

Now something is broken, and I don’t know how to restart the server.

I think my whole configuration is in need of an upgrade. I need to  
upgrade to a later version of Radiant and Rails - maybe start using  
Capistrano or Switchtower or whatever it’s called.

I would also like to set up a Subversion repository and implement  
some kind of automatic deploy functionality (is this Capistrano)?

Apart from helping me get [http://smpl.se/](http://smpl.se/) up again, I realise this is  
not not support, but if you could give some pointers or recommend  
somebody I’d be very happy.

I’m prepared to pay, but have a very limited budget.

Regards,  
Martin O.  
[http://smpl.se](http://smpl.se)  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Author:** ![modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@modhelius](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/modhelius)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-restarting-smpl-se-application-failure-radiant-site5/117691/2 "2007-10-19T14:17:13Z")

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Fast response, i’m in a hurry:

If the admin UI is working, start marking pages as “not published”  
until  
you find the page that is causing the problem. From there, try to  
isolate  
the snippet.

Anyway, think in your last modifications to the site to help find the  
problem.

All this assuming that the problem is your side, and not in the  
server  
(gem updates, DB updates…)

/AITOR