Any error logging?

[rtorcato]

I have it installed on mamp and i see no errors in the error logs.

Genghis displays: FAIL An unexpected server error has occurred.

How can i get a more detailed reason for what went wrong.

[bobthecow]

Post a screenshot?

[rtorcato]

[bobthecow]

Wow. I don't think I've ever actually seen that alert actually show up.

It's a fallback for a fallback error message:

try {
    data = JSON.parse(response.responseText);
} catch (e) {
    data = {error: response.responseText};
}
msg = data.error || '<strong>FAIL</strong> An unexpected server error has occurred.';

This means that not only did your server not return what Genghis was expecting, but it didn't return anything at all, so there's not a more helpful message for Genghis to display.

[rtorcato]

lol ok i will go and see what my server error level is

[bobthecow]

Do you mind checking in dev tools to see what URL it was requesting when it ran into that? That might help track it down as well.

[rtorcato]

what dev tools? There is no javascript errors.

my error level is set to: E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

[bobthecow]

The "Timeline" or "Net" tab of Inspector, or Console, or Firebug, or whatever your browser has. Just check what URL was requested that didn't return 200 OK.

[rtorcato]

[bobthecow]

It looks like you're using the 3.0 dev branch, right? Are you running genghis.php or genghis-dev.php?

[rtorcato]

yes i tried the dev branch to see if my error would go away

[bobthecow]

Never mind, I can tell from the screenshot you just posted. Are you using rewrite rules? Are you running this on its own virtual host, or in a folder?

[rtorcato]

most likely this issue is same as what i had before on my amazon lamp stack. using the new mongoclient http://derickrethans.nl/mongoclient.html

[bobthecow]

Genghis should support both with and without MongoClient.

[rtorcato]

it's just running in a folder. No change to rewrite .

[bobthecow]

https://github.com/bobthecow/genghis/tree/develop <- that is the dev branch.

https://github.com/bobthecow/genghis/tree/feature/three-dot-oh-my <- that is a very much work-in-progress 3.0 dev branch.

For now, you probably want the first one, not the second :)

[rtorcato]

ok grabbed the first link and updated htaccess file with no success.

[bobthecow]

One of the two URLs that's failing for you is check-status, an API call that does a couple of environment sanity checks. It doesn't do anything crazy at all, just check for Mongo drivers, timezone issues, magic quote config, etc:

https://github.com/bobthecow/genghis/blob/feature/three-dot-oh-my/src/php/Genghis/Api.php#L96-L171

So that shouldn't be MongoClient related.

[bobthecow]

If the other dev version didn't work for you, it's probably environment related. What version of MAMP are you running?

[rtorcato]

Version 2.0.5 (2.0.5)

[rtorcato]

php 5.3.6

[bobthecow]

Okay. Lemme see if I can reproduce it.

[rtorcato]

it might be easier to debug if you installed this with genghis http://filp.github.io/whoops/demo/

Laravel framework has whoops included.

if I went to http://localhost/genghis/check-status in my browser should that be displaying a 404 error or json response?

[bobthecow]

I love whoops :)

For the non-dev releases (i.e. the compiled genghis.php) it would be just about worthless though. Might make sense to include it in genghis-dev.php for 3.0+ though. I'll look into it.

[bobthecow]

/check-status would return 404 if you hit it in a browser.

Most Genghis paths respond to two kinds of requests: for standard browser requests, they respond with an HTML page. For XHR requests, they respond as a JSON API. For example, /servers/localhost is usually a page with a list of servers on it. But if you request it as XHR with Accept: application/json, it will return the JSON representation of that list of servers.

/check-status doesn't respond to the regular HTML request, however. It's one of the few endpoints that's XHR/JSON only. It wouldn't be a bad idea to make it a sort of debugging page though. I'll look into that for 3.0+ too :)

[bobthecow]

Okay. The good news is that I was able to reproduce this. The bad news is that I'm not exactly sure what it's doing :)

I'll keep looking.

[bobthecow]

You're sure you're not getting any errors in your MAMP logs? Mine is missing the Mongo class (I haven't installed the Mongo extension in MAMP yet) but the error shows up in logs/php_error.log

[rtorcato]

nope nothing in my error logs.

[bobthecow]

And you have the Mongo extension installed and working?

[rtorcato]

yep it works. I have it working with codeigniter and i also have mongo working with a laravel site I just started.

[bobthecow]

Just for fun, try out the latest version?

[rtorcato]

sorry no change

[bobthecow]

Ok. I'll look into it further when I get a chance.