Make the default 500 Internal Server Error page more friendly. Many p…

…eople don't know they're supposed to look in the log files. [#2716 state:resolved] Signed-off-by: Joshua Peek <josh@joshpeek.com>
rails · May 27, 2009 · 760cb63 · 760cb63
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diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/show_exceptions.rb
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ class ShowExceptions
     })
 
     FAILSAFE_RESPONSE = [500, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'},
-      ['<html><body><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1></body></html>']]
+      ["<html><body><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1>" <<
+       "If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web " <<
+       "application's log file and/or the web server's log file to find out what " <<
+       "went wrong.</body></html>"]]
 
     def initialize(app, consider_all_requests_local = false)
       @app = app