On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Mike Williams wrote:

> I am getting the 500 error which says 
> Application error (Apache)
> 
> Something very bad just happened. I just know it. Do you smell smoke?
> I have looked in the FAQ and archive but the only answer I found was deleting 
> the cache and/or log but neither of these resolved the problem.
> Here is some background.
> I installed instiki and it seeed to work fine.  I created a doze pages and 
> pasted some data into most of them.  I rebooted the machine acting as the 
> instiki server and restarted the instiki only to receive this error message.
> I am curious how the instiki stores the pages generated with it.

By default, Instiki uses SQLite3, as its database. The "pages" are dynamically 
generated.

>  I cannot find the pages anywhere except under the cache folder.  

The pages in the "cache" folder are just that -- cached paged.

> I am running the instiki straight without an Apache server despite the error 
> saying (Apache).

The "Apache" bit is a red herring.

But there are lots of possible sources of 500 errors.

Do you get this with every page?
Only certain pages?
What does the Instiki log file say? The error-reporting there should be more 
informative.

>  The computer is a quad core running Windows XP Professional.

What version of Ruby?
What version of Instiki?

> I am a software engineer and consider myself reasonably savvy but the instiki 
> software is new to me.

Since it seemed to work for you, initially, there's every reason to expect that 
we can get it working for you, again.

JD

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