[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #54617: Add more details when site health checks fail

Mon Dec 13 13:52:42 UTC 2021

#54617: Add more details when site health checks fail
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 Reporter:  dingo_d      |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Site Health  |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:  2nd-opinion dev-feedback
  Focuses:               |
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 I encountered a notice that said:

 {{{
 The REST API is one way WordPress, and other applications, communicate
 with the server. One example is the block editor screen, which relies on
 this to display, and save, your posts and pages.

 The REST API call gave the following unexpected result: (401) <html>
 <head><title>401 Authorization Required</title></head> <body
 bgcolor="white"> <center><h1>401 Authorization Required</h1></center>
 <hr><center>nginx</center> </body> </html> .
 }}}

 Now, I can see that it's probably something in nginx being blocked. But I
 have no idea what or on what API call this error happened.

 It would be awesome if this error was more like:

 {{{
 The REST API call gave the following unexpected result when checking the
 following endpoint: ...
 }}}

 That way I could check this endpoint, see if I'm getting any errors or
 not, poke around a bit.

 I remember there being similar notices thrown by the site health check,
 that were missing debug info.

 Maybe some additional debugging information would be a good idea to have
 as well, for developers. wp_debug_backtrace_summary() function could be
 used if some issue was encountered with more debugging details.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/54617>
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