Error 500 on Homepage but not on Dashboard

maxgt

Hi,

I recently deployed Automad on a web app (Digitalocean), pulling the code from GitHub directly. Everything went well and I created the first user to connect to the dashboard. So until here, no issues at all, until I tried to navigate to the homepage of the website, which returns a 500 HTTP error. Could someone point me in the right direction to solve this issue?

Here's the link: https://mekanika-support-automad-ajurf.ondigitalocean.app/
The sign-in page that works: https://mekanika-support-automad-ajurf.ondigitalocean.app/dashboard

Here is a copy of the app spec:

name: mekanika-support-automad
region: ams
services:
- environment_slug: php
  github:
    branch: master
    deploy_on_push: true
    repo: tevarg/mekanika-support-automad
  http_port: 8080
  instance_count: 1
  instance_size_slug: professional-xs
  name: mekanika-support-automad
  routes:
  - path: /
  run_command: heroku-php-apache2
  source_dir: /

Thank you very much!

Everyone

Log in to dashboard, enable debug mode, check again the website's frontent with developer tools on (F12) and see what the console is throwing at you. If you have access to server's log files, the cause of your problem will be definitely in them.

maxgt

Thank you for your reply, I didn't know about the debug feature.
Unfortunately, I don't get that much more information, only the 500 error.
GEThttps://mekanika-support-automad-ajurf.ondigitalocean.app/ [HTTP/2 500 Internal Server Error 1943ms]
And I also see that the page is trying to fetch the favicon at this URL and fails with a non found error:
GEThttps://mekanika-support-automad-ajurf.ondigitalocean.app/favicon.ico [HTTP/2 404 Not Found 663ms]

maxgt

I actually started all over, not using the app module of Digitalocean, but creating a droplet to have more flexibility.
Everything works fine now, thank you for your help in the meantime

mad

maxgt Would be great if you could compile a little tutorial on how you set things up as a droplet! I think it is super interesting for others as well! Thanks!

maxgt

Hi mad, sure I'll try to share that when I have a bit of time.

mad

maxgt Cool! That would be great!