docpad: getting info on what exactly did got wrong - docpad

Docpad is throwing warnings at me all the time:
warning: Something went wrong while rendering: ...
I would love to know some more about what exactly went wrong. Are there any settings that I can tweak to make the output more helpful? In this particular case, the template is an ecofile.
I have tried the -d option, but can't see that it helps.
I would love a special debug mode, where each layout, document, partial etc are rendered inside a border with the name of the file rendered. If the variables available inside the file could be serialized and shown in a popup or something, I would be thrilled. :-)

That special mode sounds a lot like what TraceGL will soon be able to offer. TraceGL seems amazing, but I can't seem to get it to work with DocPad yet.
For the meantime, do the debugging instructions on the DocPad Website help at all?

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I have actually a problem in a skin i'm doing in jamroom.
The problem is that i want to use the {debug} to open the smarty debug console page where i see the template variables, but when i use that command it doesn't open that page and all the info is shown in the same page of the template that calls this function.
Does anyone knows what could be wrong?
My reputation is too low to 'add a comment', so commenting here.
I've seen this happen sometimes when the code for the {debug} comes out in the section. (as in the case of using the meta.tpl templates in jamroom ).
Try it in a different template, or copy the html code of the debug output to its own html file to view it. Not the best solution, but works to find the variable your after.

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I understand that joomla contents are generated on the fly and thus it isn't easy to find the exact file. I have also seen some of the past related questions in stackoverflow.com, asked by desperate users like myself, nothing works.
Im hoping someone knows of a tool or a trick that can help me. I even tried indexing the localhost folder (c:\wamp\www\demo) to search file contents, it doesn't seem to work for some reason.
Pls help.
The position of the module is almost certainly determined only by the css in your template. Using web inspector in Firefox or Chrome you can see which file (and the file path) of any styles that are currently being applied to the module, so you can simply modify the rules in that files.
I love Mac
Since my files are in the localhost, i have been trying to search for the div class that is generated on the fly, but my pc couldn't thoroughly search the contents of the file.
On my mac, i searched for the div class word and hey! it showed me a list of files that contained the div class and i found the file in a matter of seconds! how cool is that!!
Thanks Guys, hope this helps someone too!

Unable to scroll down

I'm struggling on my website which worked well since the shareaholic widget install. I've tried to remove it but the bug remains.
A picture is worth thousand words so it's about : www.mywebshop.org, we can't scroll anymore on the website and I must admit I've never seen that bug (except when using fixed position ;-)).
I'm totally stuck... no cache is active, I can't see anything out of the ordinary... I'm having this issue on every browser on my mac.
Any clues?
Thank in advance ;-)
hey there I have seen your site. Please remove the overflow-y:hidden; from the body selector in the style.css file on line number:2793
That should do it

My website is entirely blank, tips to diagnose?

I have an ecommerce site built on OpenCart (1.5.0 i believe), which after inserting tracking code from Alexa.com and a block of code for redirecting to another site went entirely blank. Initially it worked, so I felt it was safe to save over my backups. But after refreshing the pages it was blank, and the 'view source' option in all my browsers (firefox, chrome, safari) revealed that there was no code reaching them. I then began to follow a series of debugging steps:
As my text editor was still open I undid all changes and reuploaded with no changes
I scanned the documents to be sure there were no issues in the text, with no discoveries
I ran it through W3C validation, with 2 warnings which are 1- no character encoding and 2- unable to determine parse mode.
contacted host for a server side restore though their earliest backup was a day after the problem began (it took 3 days of arguing to get them to initiate a restore)
In regards to these validation warnings, I am not sure what encoding should be used for OpenCart, ASCII or UTF-8 (which the validator resorted to) or what, in addition I am not sure if the template used with OpenCart would conflict with it if I were to declare encoding. In addition, I find it hard to believe that such a widely distributed product would have something this simple causing such a huge mistake because then all users would have this issue.
In regards to parse mode, the index page does declare parse mode (in the included header file).
In addition to all this, the validator is also claiming that it is not receiving code at all, which disables any chance of determining problems through that route.
The header and footer were both edited for these additions but are relatively long to include in this. The code used to edit were, for alexa <!-- tracking code here --> inserted into the head section of the header file, and the code for the footer was:
<span style="display:inline-block;width:160px;height:30px;text-align:center;border:#000 1px dotted;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;background-color:#FFFFFF;"><strong style="display:block;padding:0px;margin:0px;">Reputation Management</strong>Submit Express</span>
If anymore code is needed to help then please let me know, I am not looking for someone to fix my problem but to give me relevant tips to help figure it out myself or if they do provide a fix to educate me as how they managed it so I may be able to use the same debugging method. Thanks!
EDIT: The issue, as discovered thanks to Jay, is "PHP Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_HOST in **/public_html/graphic-shack.com/index.php on line 40" and a google search has not revealed any effective results. This, to my untrained mind is jibberish, clarification would be greatly appreciated as line 40 is in fact a blank line, where as the text around it I can not post for some reason but will be viewable at http://graphic-shack.com/example.html
Open Cart uses UTF-8 throughout, so its definitely best to use that which your theme should set for the browser in the
The first thing I would ask is have you got error reporting set up (NOT OPEN CARTS ONE) that logs php errors?
If not, then you need to do something like
php_flag log_errors on
php_value error_log /path/to/custom/error.log
in your .htaccess file, so that you can log all your php errors to a file. this will need to be somewhere you can get the file, so change the path accordingly so you can view it.
Once you have that, you'll have a good base for working out the problem. I find it hard to believe that opencart has stopped because you added code. The most likely cause is a file missing, blanked or half written accidentally when saving or you've got some extra php code somewhere you shouldn't
== TEST.PHP CONTENT ==
<?php
echo '<pre>' . print_r($_SERVER, true) . '</pre>';
?>

WordPress: plugins don't load (only) on homepage after update

After several plugins got updated yesterday I saw in the source code that actually no plugin is loaded(1) on the frontpage anymore. On all the other pages everything works just fine.
The most obvious one is the menubar (wp-menubar-plugin), and for now I made an exception for the homepage(2) loading a hard coded copy of the menu as I couldn't debug the issue.
For comparison:
homepage: as newby I only can post on link so please use the one below and click on "home" to compare the source code (only header) of the homepage and and all other pages. Sorry and Thank you ;)
other page example: http://www.ehpress.com/specials/
I tried some debugging by deactivating all plugins and activating one after the other with no change. I had a look through all my template files and couldn't find anything that could cause this 'exception'.
Has anyone experience with this or a similar behaviour?
I would be thankful for any hint where I could start with the debugging.
Thank you for any help,
Albert
(1) the easiest test is the 'All in One SEO Pack' which should be found in the header
(2) if (is_page('home')) ... echo css and in the body echo html
I can't exactly say what it was, but after the provider change some permissions so that I don't get the 550 error again all the plugins work again as well.
Thanks again for your help!
Albert

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