How to debug on production?

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How do I debug on a live server?

  1. I am getting stripe to work on our production server, but it’s throwing an error:
    {status: "500", message: "A server error occured, to see the error enable the DEBUG flag."}
  2. I could enable the debug flag, but then the whole production server is in debug mode
  3. How can I get the error message so I can investigate what’s going wrong?

I tried to enable web server logs, but they seem empty completely

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I feel like I’m missing something obvious!

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Enable the debug option in server connect and check the exact error :slight_smile:

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Any way to see the error message without doing this?
I am guessing that it’s not safe to enable debug for the production server?

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There is nothing that much to worry about.
Just enable debug, check the error and then you can turn the debug off … it will just display the error, nothing else.

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Thanks @Teodor, then my last concern: there are not many active users now so it’s OK to keep redeploying the app. But I can imagine this to be quite disruptive later.

Any idea how I can test the integration of Stripe on the production server without so many redeploys?

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Well maybe setup a staging server and test there :slight_smile:

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Makes sense, I’ll ask some advice on that in another thread then haha

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I was just thinking about this same challenge.
Perhaps a tutorial on how to setup a test server and production server? someone? :wink:

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We managed to set up a staging a while ago, but we never completed it 100%. It’s not connecting to the database.

It was a LOT more complicated than I hoped, involved SSHing into the droplet of digitalocean and creating new docker composes.
Also applying the traefik rules. I guess it’s still not on the same network or something else is going wrong.

It would make life a lot easier if there’s an easy way to create a staging environment through the project settings or at least being able to docker-compose local the same file that wappler uses for portainer and traefik

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Yeah, It is indeed a ‘challenge’. And besides the point you describe, there is also, in my case, a mobile application connected to the production website/api. This makes things even more complicated I guess…