Server Returning 500 response code for a URL request

[chandra kambham]

Hi Ranchers,

Our Web application is deployed on the SUN One Portal Server version 6.0 .
When we request for a particular URL the server is responding with the 500 Status code.
For example the URL: "http:test.com/testapp/common" -- is resulting in 500 error code...
Our Application name is: testapp and there exist a folder named "common" under this "testapp" folder...

I am not able to understand why the server is responding with 500 error code for this url request.?

Could some one please help me regarding this...

Many Thanks,
K.Chandra

[Paul Sturrock]

An HTTP 500 error code is pretty much meaningless, all it indicates is something went wrong in the code running on the server. If you want to find out what is causing this you will need to read the server log.

[chandra kambham]

Hi Paul,

Can you please let me know which logs of server i should check now..?

[Paul Sturrock]

Sorry, I've never use Sun One Portal Server so I've no idea. The documentation should tell you, though I'm a little surprised you managed to get this far without knowing

[chandra kambham]

Hi,

I have checked the server error log and found the below entry:

  [17/Sep/2009:16:03:00] config (20629): for host 189.147.111.258 trying to GET /gmeportal/common/, handle-processed reports: no way to service request for /gmeportal/common/  

Is this some thing related to configuration of server that is blocking the access to this perticular folder..?

[Ankit Garg]

chandra kambham wrote:Hi,
I have checked the server error log and found the below entry:

  [17/Sep/2009:16:03:00] config (20629): for host 189.147.111.258 trying to GET /gmeportal/common/, handle-processed reports: no way to service request for /gmeportal/common/  

Is this some thing related to configuration of server that is blocking the access to this perticular folder..?

Are you trying to get a directory listing of that folder?? A directory listing looks something like this

[chandra kambham]

Hi Ankit,

Yes I am trying to get a directory listing of that folder. But instead I am getting 500 error code..