How to simulate an error 500 in Symfony 1.4?

Question

I created an error500.php file in web/errors/ and would now like to test it.

I tried to put this line in one of my actions:

$this->getResponse()->setStatusCode(500);

Unfortunately it looks like it's ignored.

Do you guys have any idea of what's happening here?

I'm using Symfony 1.4.

Edit: Firebug is telling me that the error is actually fired but the page is still loading afterwards. And I'm in the prod env.

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure throwing any exception should trigger the error page:

throw new sfException('Testing the 500 error');

However, the location of the error page is different in symfony 1.2+:

config/error/error.html.php

move your web/errors/error500.php file to this location instead.

Answer 2

Maybe you'll find this site useful http://symfony-check.org/. The second task is about Error 500 page.