[Koha] Upgrade to 21.11 Fails

[Mason James]

On 13/03/23 5:13 am, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote:
> On 3/12/23 10:34, Katrin Fischer wrote:
> 
>> the internal server error will resolve to something more meaningful in
>> the logs. Check your logs on the server for the full error message.
> 
> 
> I've looked at the tail of all logs in /var/log/koha/(instance)/, but most are empty and the others don't give me any meaning.
> 
> One example, intranet-error.log gives:
> 
> [Sun Mar 12 09:18:00.882412 2023] [cgi:error] [pid 25446] [client 185.224.128.17:41784] AH01215: Configuration not defined at /usr/share/perl5/Log/Log4perl/Config.pm line 579.: /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/mainpage.pl
> 
> I've viewed both files listed, but not being a programmer, I can't see what might be wrong with them.
> 
> 
> To review, an upgrade to 21.11 (OldOldStable) and Debian 10 results in [Internal Server Error] screens.

hi Bruce
the short version is that your koha instance is probably missing a log4perl.conf file

a simple way to correct the problem would be to create a new instance, then copy the missing log4perl.conf file from the new instance

then do a search/replace on instance_name, in the file