# Newbie question: HTTP 500 0 errors - no output to browser **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 29, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-http-500-0-errors-no-output-to-browser/50727 "2005-11-29T00:51:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![esloane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@esloane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esloane)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-http-500-0-errors-no-output-to-browser/50727/1 "2005-11-29T00:51:47Z")
Hi, I asked this question a day or so ago - heres an update. I’m following the “Agile Web D. with RAils” book and succesfully built the application therein. I’ve been banging my head against a wall for a few days trying to set up an app of my own following the same procedures as used in the book. All I get are 500 0 errors from WEBrick and nothing in the browser. So… Ihave a project in d:\ruby\projects\wf. I have three wf databases, \_development, etc… I scaffolded a model, view, controller on the users table. I try to access this at [http://localhost:3000/user/list](http://localhost:3000/user/list) and up comes 500 0 again. Now the development log shows nil. I open a console and type User.find\_all and up comes my data. The dev log now shows " e[4;36;1mUser Columns (0.000000)e[0m e[0;1mSHOW FIELDS FROM userse[0m e[4;36;1mUser Load (0.000000)e[0m e[0;1mSELECT \* FROM users e[0m e[4;35;1mUser Columns (0.016000)e[0m e[0mSHOW FIELDS FROM userse[0m e[4;36;1mUser Load (0.000000)e[0m e[0;1mSELECT \* FROM users e[0m" WTF is going on here?? As I understand it - the output from console should be the same as output to the browser? Please help - my head hurts and the wall doesn’t look too good either! Kind Regards, Eric. ---
**Author:** ![esloane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@esloane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esloane)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-http-500-0-errors-no-output-to-browser/50727/2 "2005-11-29T02:12:27Z")
Try deleting all your sessions - if you traced the execution path you’d probably find that Rails was throwing a fit about not being able to load objects from the session. Sessions are stored in /tmp/ruby-sess.\* or something quite like it on \*nix/MacOS X - They’re in some hideously hidden M$ directory structure under Documents and Settings on Windows. - james ---
**Author:** ![esloane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@esloane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esloane)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 10:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-http-500-0-errors-no-output-to-browser/50727/3 "2005-11-29T10:25:06Z")
James A. wrote: > Try deleting all your sessions - if you traced the execution path > you’d probably find that Rails was throwing a fit about not being able > to load objects from the session. > > Sessions are stored in /tmp/ruby-sess.\* or something quite like it on > \*nix/MacOS X - They’re in some hideously hidden M$ directory structure > under Documents and Settings on Windows. For me, on Windows XP, they are in C:\WINDOWS\Temp with names like ruby\_sess.2a9778de5955c4a9 regards Justin ---
**Author:** ![esloane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@esloane](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/esloane)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-question-http-500-0-errors-no-output-to-browser/50727/4 "2005-11-30T01:07:37Z")
Thanks James and Craig for responding. I found the problem and it was, as suspected, quite dumb - if a little weird. My previous projects worked perfectly using localhost and 127.0.0.1. This one, for some reason, required the actual computer name. Given that, everything worked as expected. Kind Regards, Eric