I restarted it yet again and now it's working... This is, of course, after I tracked down every log file, every config file, and every Catalyst module to see what could possibly cause this issue and finding absolutely nothing, no way for /beta and /api/v1 to differ in any way (they both route to the exact same code).
I am reminded of the story of Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine: A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. My actual guess as to what was wrong is that Lighttpd dropped the backend for /api/v1 from the "load balancer" configuration, but not the one for /beta (since it isn't used as much). So restarting the Catalyst app fixed /beta, but Lighttpd assumed that /api/v1 was irreparably down. I can't find any documentation, logging, or otherwise to support this theory, but it's working and it's late so I'm disinclined to continue searching... Doug Bell d...@preaction.me > On Mar 1, 2017, at 6:28 AM, Nigel Horne <n...@bandsman.co.uk> wrote: > > On 2/28/17 8:21 PM, Nigel Horne wrote: >> I have one location where https://metabase.cpantesters.org/beta/ works but >> https://metabase.cpantesters.org/api/v1/ doesn't. > Still the case this morning (US time). /beta/ works, but /api/v1 gives 500 > HTTP status. > > -Nigel >
