Question

at my local my form, jquery/ajax, php is working smoothly, how come when on the production server am getting an internal server 500 error , that’s the only message i get from the firebug console and nothing else, how to debug this? is there something wrong with my ajax script ?

    if(userid == ""){
   $.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url: "classes/ajax.submitcv.php",
      timeout: 8000,
      data: "userid="+userid+"&cvusername="+cvusername+"&resumetitle="+resumetitle+"&resumeintro="+resumeintro+
            "&name="+name+"&dob="+dob+"&contacttel1="+contacttel1+"&contacttel1type="+contacttel1type+
            "&contacttel2="+contacttel2+"&contacttel2type="+contacttel2type+"&contacttel3="+contacttel3+
            "&contacttel3type="+contacttel3type+"&primaryemail="+primaryemail+"&secondaryemail="+secondaryemail+
            "&skype="+skype+"&facebook="+facebook+"&linkedin="+linkedin+"&twitter="+twitter+
            "&messenger="+messenger+"&yahoo="+yahoo+"&aol="+aol+"&summaryofpositionsought="+
            summaryofpositionsought+"&summaryofskills="+summaryofskills+"&gender="+gender,
      success: function(){
           $('form#wsrecruitcvhead').fadeOut("normal",function(){
           $('div.successpostregister').fadeIn(1000);
        });
      },
//      error: function(result){
//        alert(result.status +);
//      }
      });
      return false;
     } else {

   $.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url: "classes/ajax.submitcv.php",
      timeout: 8000,
      data: "userid="+userid+"$cvusername="+cvusername+"&resumetitle="+resumetitle+"&resumeintro="+resumeintro+
            "&name="+name+"&dob="+dob+"&contacttel1="+contacttel1+"&contacttel1type="+contacttel1type+
            "&contacttel2="+contacttel2+"&contacttel2type="+contacttel2type+"&contacttel3="+contacttel3+
            "&contacttel3type="+contacttel3type+"&primaryemail="+primaryemail+"&secondaryemail="+secondaryemail+
            "&skype="+skype+"&facebook="+facebook+"&linkedin="+linkedin+"&twitter="+twitter+
            "&messenger="+messenger+"&yahoo="+yahoo+"&aol="+aol+"&summaryofpositionsought="+
            summaryofpositionsought+"&summaryofskills="+summaryofskills+"&gender="+gender,
      success: function(){
           $('form#wsrecruitcvhead').fadeOut("normal",function(){
           $('div.successpost').fadeIn(1000);
        });
      },
      });
      return false;
        }

help 🙁

Answer 1

You’ll need to tail the server logs to find out what the error is. You should be able to obtain the full stack trace and single out the cause of the error.