Hi everyone,
we ran into something confusing in the application builder that turned out to have a very simple cause — posting it here in case it saves someone else the troubleshooting time.
In one of our published apps, the pages further down the page list suddenly stopped working — the browser just showed a server error (500). At first it looked like some kind of page limit (“once you have more than X pages, the last ones break”), because it only depended on the position in the list, not on the pages themselves. Even addresses that don’t exist returned a 500 instead of the usual “not found” page, which was our first real hint that it wasn’t about the page count.
The cause: One of our pages had a ? at the end of its path — most likely a typo on our side when the page was created. Nothing complained when saving or publishing. As soon as we removed the ? and republished, everything worked again, including proper 404s.
The error message on the broken pages was always the same:
Unexpected ? at index 10, expected end: some-page?
To reproduce: create a page whose path contains a ?, publish the app, then open any page that sits below it in the page list.
We’re on self-hosted 2.3.3; from a quick look, 2.3.4 seems to behave the same. Not sure if this is already known — happy to provide more details if that helps.
