symfony - 500 error page customisation problem - symfony1

I am ready to push a site to production (currently on staging), but I'm having a slight problem with the internal server error 500 page.
I have created a file in web/errors/error500.php and I've also got: ErrorDocument 500 errors/error500.php in my .htaccess file
The problem is, if there is a 500 error in the admin, it displays the symfony default 500 page instead of mine in the errors folder.
Does anyone have a rough idea why this is?
I've cleared symfony cache, cleared browser cache and used several browsers.
Thanks

The standard Symfony way of doing this isn't with an Apache ErrorDocument directive, but simply by putting your error page in either <project>/apps/<appname>/config/error/error.html.php or <project>/config/error/error.html.php, for per-app or general error pages respectively. See this checklist item on the very handy Symfony Deployment Cheat Sheet.

Also make sure you are not in debug mode when you test this otherwise it will still show full stack trace.

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IIS caching "The layout page could not be found at the following path" error

The Problem
I have a website running in IIS. If I rename or delete one of the layout page .cshtml files under /Views/ the site immediately begins throwing following yellow screen error as expected
The layout page "_Layout.cshtml" could not be found at the following path: "~/Views/_Layout.cshtml".
What surprises me is that if I recreate or rename the file so it is exactly like it was before, the yellow screen persists. Why is this particular 500 error sticky?
I currently think that this has something to do with IIS and is specifically related to error handling. The site immediately detects that the layout page file is missing. It does not immediately realize when the file is back in place.
Thanks!
Some interesting clues
This happens on all of my sites I've tried this on so far. It isn't related to a specific site
I tried this on two websites at the same time. On one site I repeatedly and consistently refreshed the page hoping for a success. On the other, I left it alone for several minutes before checking again. The site I leave alone will resolve its problems and find the layout page on disk again. The site I continually make requests to appears to display the error indefinitely.
What I've tried
I have reproduced the problem on Umbraco websites using Umbraco's default routing as well as regular MVC pages using custom routing. The problem is the same for both.
I don't have output caching configured in IIS
When I am reproducing the yellow screen error, I am able to reproduce the error in multiple browsers, so I don't believe it is related to browser caching
I checked on the httpRuntime in the root web.config and the fcnMode is set to fcnMode="Single"
I've fiddled around with the web.config customErrors and httpErrors. Nothing I've done here has affected the problem.
I am able to reproduce the problem on websites where there is no custom code for caching. No CDN. No load balancer.
Versions
IIS: I have reproduced the problem on Windows Server 2012R2 running IIS 8 and Windows 11 running IIS 10
CMS: All of the websites I have tested on so far are Umbraco 7 sites. However, I have reproduced the problem on pages that are routed using Umbraco's out of the box routing as well as pages that are just set up using MVC and aren't leveraging Umbraco.
It appears to be part of the behavior of FcnMode="Single". See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.configuration.fcnmode?view=netframework-4.8. It isn't an issue with caching. It is a problem with the way that the site's file change notifications (FCN) are configured.
The sticky 500 behavior on renaming files happens when I use FcnMode="Single" but not when I use FcnMode="Default".
FcnMode="Single" will result in only a single object to monitor file changes. This single object is responsible for monitoring changes to files in the main directory and sub directories.
FcnMode="Default" will result in a separate object to monitor file changes for each directory.
Umbraco sites, by default, use FcnMode="Single". This makes sense because Umbraco sites cache under very deeply nested directories in /App_Data/. This can result in so many of these monitors that it can affect the performance of the site. There is a great explanation of FcnMode and why it matters for Umbraco here: https://shazwazza.com/post/all-about-aspnet-file-change-notification-fcn/
Unfortunately, it appears that the single file monitor can miss renames of files in some cases.

ASP .NET MVC 500 Internal Server Error - on Get and Post - same application / different servers

I'm trying to help our System Admins here, so please don't beat me up for my lack of knowledge. We can run the application locally and we can build and deploy to our Test Server and the application reports work as expected. But when we deploy to our Production Server, many of the Get and Post Ajax calls are getting 500 errors. Essentially, all reports run everywhere EXCEPT on the Production Server.
This is an ASP .NET MVC application with the views being Razor HTML and JavaScript. The model, controllers, and services are all in C#. IIS 8.5 web server and SQL Server for the database.
I've Googled and tried everything I could find. More detailed errors show us the service call that fails along with the parameters and all looks good. Again the application reports run fine in all environments other than the Production Server. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and what we should be looking at to resolve the issue?
Thank you in advance.
Just turn off custom errors in the web.config file
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off">
</system.web>
and then open up the development tools in a browser during one of the GET requests and replay the GET yourself. Should get the exact error message back.
It took us all day to figure out that one of the parameter tables did not have the appropriate permissions. Which would explain why some reports ran while others consistently returned a 500 error.

How to solve the 500 Server error in asp.net mvc without enable the error show stuff

I am using asp.net mvc 4 for my project. my project is going well. I wonder about a thing.
I make a controller Test and ActionResult Index() this action doesn't need any viewdata or any kind of things.
Now When I test it in my local computer it's should work and it is. no problem.
Now amazing thing is it's doesn't work on server.
500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.
I am amazed that what happen to my code when everything work without any exception.
Now when I told other people about log they don't have anything. I don't want to install any nuget package on live site to test it. Do someone help me to solve this without adding any error checking module.
How I can check the issue on server.
IIS will log 500 errors in the Event Logs. So assuming you have access to the server, you can check there.
Well, I'm sorry but you have to be willing to do something... If you don't want to install packages like Elmah or enable remote iis debugging or etc... the only other thing that comes to my mind is for you to just start changing random stuff and hope it works. Also, most of these 500 internal server errors are caused by something in the web.config file. Make sure everything is set and good in there.
A very common reason for getting 500 Internal Server error is : Issue in Web.Config file.
Many times one can have some tags not closed properly OR missing Double quotes etc..
In general some syntax error is present most of the times in Web.Config. So make sure atleast you PASS this case.

how to handle errors like 404 / 500 in rails3

Hey, I hope you can help me.
I am trying to find a way to direct the user to the default error pages 404.html and 500.html in my public folder.
So when there is a routing or nomethod error it should be directed there to.
I already tried some stuff in my application controller but it didnt work.
Many thanks!!
Rails does this for you automatically when running in production mode. When you upload your application to a live server, Rails takes care of handling those exceptions and rendering the correct error pages with the correct header status. If you're trying to see what those pages look like (for testing or something), just access them directly via http://localhost:3000/404.html
Whenever you set up your Rails application on a live server (let's use Apache as an example), you give the site root as the /public folder in your application. Then, whenever a request is made to that server address, Apache first looks in that public folder and tries to serve a static asset (this is a configurable option in [environment].rb). If it can't find the requested page, then the request is forwarded through the Ruby stack.
When in production mode, if Rails encounters an error that isn't handled (i.e begin, rescue), it throws the error the whole way up to the stack, which then tells Apache (again, in my example) to render an appropriate error.
Here are some common errors that you'll see in development mode and what they render in production mode:
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound => 404 (page not found)
nil.method => 500 (server error) unless you turn off whiny nils
ActionController::RoutingError => 404 (page not found)
Happens automatically if run in production mode - no need that you do that manually.
Have a look at this post to redirect all requests causing a Routing Error.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot HTTP Error 400 for MVC/Firefox?

Two clients complains on HTTP Error 400 from Mozilla Firefox 3.6.9. This happens when they open any link - both mvc application and also any static images, which are hosted on Classic application pool without any code.
Exact error message is HTTP Error 400. The request is badly formed
No errors in windows log and application error log. Proxy in browser is set to off.
Other browsers works fine for them.
Any ideas about what could cause such behavior?
For now, i can see only one option - ask them to install Firebug, but this is not really user friendly.
For some reason, cookies was corrupted and this was leading to HTTP 400 error.
After user cleaned cookies for this website he was able to get page.
I still need to investigate what exactly went wrong and find source of this problem but it is clear that I need to review all places where I do cookie creation.

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