Continuously receiving this error when attempting to use VisualEditor to publish an article. This is the 2nd article that this has occurred on (just began using MediaWiki, have written about 10 articles). Error also displays when trying to switch to source editor.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T266971 "Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server" (HTTP 404/403) and similar errors (catalog) | |||
| Resolved | None | T309438 Error loading data from server: Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 500) |
This probably means an exception occurring somewhere in Parsoid. Can you try to follow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_debug#Logging and find the error message and the stack trace?
This problem should no longer occur on MediaWiki 1.41 and later, as VisualEditor no longer uses HTTP requests internally to contact Parsoid, it just calls the PHP methods directly (see T320529 for related work).
Please try MediaWiki 1.41 and hopefully VisualEditor will now finally just work. If you still encounter some issues, please file a new task.