Production Errors

[terse sluice]

Hi,

I just put my site on a server using forge and started getting production errors when going to my api endpoints, but on local it was working fine.

The error was like incorrect name or like minor things which I would think it would stop my local for working, maybe its less strict?

How can I make my local have the same rules and errors as production if possible, as when I update to production I dont want to start fixing these bugs there.

hope that makes sense 🙂

[fallen scarab]

It would help if you shared some of these errors, as per #rules 1️⃣

[terse sluice]

Sorry thought it would not be relevant as it’s not about the error it’s more about seeing the errors only in production

[fallen scarab]

Well that’s an error with your code?

Go to the file and line number mentioned, and see why the variable would be null rather than an object like you’re expecting.

[terse sluice]

Yes but never got that error locally, only when it went on my server.

I have fixed it but not sure why I never got it locally

[fallen scarab]

And?

You clearly have code that is working with different data and therefore acting differently in different environments.

So again, go to the file and line number mentioned, and work backwards.

You’re probably trying to find something that exists locally but not on production, hence the null in production.

[ember abyss]

It's extremely relevant as the error would tell you what's going on. Like the error you show below tells you your code is doing something like $obj->vehicle_amount. Locally you're testing things with a certain setup, certain values in the database, and that works. But the code you have always assumes $obj is something. So you might have users without a certain relation or something (I don't know what the actual issue is), so behavior is different, that's where those kinds of errors come from

[terse sluice]

Thanks for clearing it up , I assume that’s what it is but will check next time I get an error like that.
🙏

[fallen scarab]

Well that’s what error messages with filenames and line numbers are for: to point you to the problem.

[terse sluice]

Like I said I did solve the error already I just did not realise why I was not getting the error locally

[fallen scarab]

Because you didn’t read the error and look where it was pointing, and instead just kept saying “happens on production but not locally”.

Don’t try and overthink error messages. Read them literally. If it says something is wrong in a file at a certain line, then look there.