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Welcome to TroubleshootingWiki.org, the home of free tutorials on software troubleshooting.

TroubleshootingWiki.org is designed to provide you with comprehensive and free guides for software troubleshooting. It is an open Wiki for everyone to contribute to. The following categories have troubleshooting or debugging related tutorials for a variety of different programs and software. More categories will be added to accommodate the newly added tutorials. Click on the category to be taken through to a list of the programs and software:

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Debugging Flex
In this tutorial, we will discuss various debugging techniques possible with Flex Builder's debugger and some third-party tools to help us with debugging our application in the production environment. more...

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Troubleshooting Zenoss
Zenoss is a complex software package wrapped in an accessible web interface, which enables ready access to enterprise quality network and system monitors to the masses. Zenoss provides several default options to help us identify and diagnose problems, including reports, log files, and Zenoss commands. Let's review some basic Zenoss troubleshooting and support options to help us identify and get answers to our problems.

PHP, Database and Application Error Handling
This tutorial has reviewed the handling of the inevitable errors that go with software systems. Errors arising out of PHP code make up one important area, and database errors another. The special case of an invalid URI causing a "404 error" is also taken into consideration.

Debugging Yahoo User Interface
The focus of this tutorial has been solely on the Logger control. This control can signifi cantly reduce your learning curve when working with the –debug.js versions of the different library components and provides a window through which the inner workings of each component can be examined in detail. Logger can easily be included within an application that you are creating yourself so that you can log messages from different parts of your code to check that everything is functioning correctly.

Handling Joomla! Errors
Security and graceful error handling is imperative to any good computer system. For systems like Joomla!, which are often available on the World Wide Web, poor security or incorrect error handling carries a high risk factor, and that risk is often higher when using third-party extensions. Handling errors is a common task; we will explore the different error levels, which we use to classify our errors, and ways in which we can modify the error levels and how they are handled.

Debugging and validating Joomla Templates
As you continue working and develop your own Joomla! templates, you will discover that life is much smoother if you debug and validate at each step of your template-development process. The full process will pretty much go like this: add some code; check to see if the page looks good in Firefox; check it in IE; make sure the page validates with W3C; if so, add next bit of code and repeat as necessary. We're going to cover the basic techniques of debugging and validation that you should be employing throughout your development process.

Troubleshooting Drupal
In this tutorial, we will take a look at two of the problems most likely to occur during the setup process of Drupal. We will also take a look at how they manifest themselves and how to solve them quickly. It should be noted that at this early stage, there are not many things that can go wrong as the installation routine is fairly well used.

Troubleshooting osCommerce
At some point in your career, you might experience problems with your code; no matter how diligently you try to work, errors do creep in. So common are errors (most often called bugs), in fact, that any big corporation nowadays has to implement comprehensive testing and debugging plans for months on end before it can consider new software to be fairly stable. Even then, as you have probably experienced, there are problems that slip under the radar and require patches or updates. Since bugs are a part of life, it is better to learn how to deal with them properly than to hope to avoid them completely. This tutorial will provide a few neat methods, as well as reiterate the best process for dealing with bugs.

Troubleshooting Nagios 3.0
There might be cases where accessing the Nagios URL shows an error instead of the welcome screen after installing Nagios. If this happens, it can be due to various reasons, for example, because the web server has not started, or the Nagios related configuration setup is incorrect, or permissions on the Nagios directories are incorrect. This tutorial will guide you various debugging steps.

Debugging Netbeans
Debuggers help us to test and debug applications. NetBeans includes a debugger that can help us seamlessly in debugging all of our Java applications, including enterprise applications. In this tutorial we will be covering the features of NetBeans debugger,which will make Java EE developers life easy.

Troubleshooting Alfresco
In this tutorial we will learn about,the debugging of tools that are mentioned. Also it will help us in building and deploying the changes made in the logs and making it more customize.

Troubleshooting OFBiz
The OFBiz framework is comprised of a number of different concepts and programming languages,therefore this tutorial will highlight on different debugging techniques required to gain the visibility at runtime for OFBiz.

Debugging for AJAX applications
Most of today's AJAX frameworks, including the Microsoft AJAX Library, offer built-in capabilities for debugging and tracing. In this tutorial we will learn about the capabilities built in the Microsoft AJAX Library, and we'll also learn about third-party debugging and tracing tools.

Troubleshooting trixbox CE
Trixbox CE introduces you to the basics of open source PBX systems, it describes on how they handle calls, how they connect to the existing telephone networks.In this tutorial we will take you through the steps of troubleshooting your system when things are not working the way they should.

Debugging Dynamic NAV
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, an application that brings a three-tiered architecture, Web services enablement, and many more exciting features,to the well established Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution.This tutorial explores the tools and techniques available for detecting problems, pinpointing the source,and helping to remove them from the system quickly and painlessly.

Debugging C Sharp Threaded Programming
In this tutorial we will learn debugging procedures which will help us in finding solutions to multithreaded application problems, by having a better understanding of the execution of parallel threads.

Troubleshooting Zen Cart
While running your Zen Cart shop, you may face some common problems which can be broadly categorized as PHP and configuration related problems and Zen Cart related problems. This tutorial highlight such problems ans their solutions.

Handling errors in SOA based systems
This tutorial covers system errors such as a network connection going down meaning a web service is temporarily unavailable,and business errors such as service being invoked with invalid data

Troubleshooting SBS 2008
In this tutorial we will get to know about some common problems in Small Bussiness Server 2008, and solution on how they can be fixed in the specific parts of the system.

PHP Data Objects : Error Handling
In this tutorial, we will examine how PDO handles errors and introduces exceptions. Also, we will investigate the sources of errors and see how to counter them.

Debugging REST Web Services
REST is a software architecture style that can be followed while designing software systems.In this tutorial, we will look into the techniques such as message capturing and analysing to get to know if things are going fine, and if not, what sort of problems are causing trouble.

Debugging the HelloWorld WCF services
WCF is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. WCF is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and simplifies the development of connected systems. The purpose of WCF is to provide a single programming model that can be used to create services on the .NET platform for organizations.This tutorial explains how HelloWorld WCF services can be debugged using various methods.

Troubleshooting WS-BPEL
The task of building a WS-BPEL application using asynchronous communication may be a challenge. What if your asynchronous application doesn't work as expected and you cannot understand what the problem is? We will try to simulate a problem and try to solve it in the tutorial.

Troubleshooting Joomla! And VirtueMart
In this tutorial we will come across some common problems that are related to Joomla! and VirtueMart and how these problems can be handled.

Debugging of Sakai error messages
This tutorial is about common error messages in Sakai and methods evolved in dealing with those error messages.

Debugging Oracle Scheduler
Considering the fact that when the jobs get more complicated, it gets harder to understand why something works differently than planned. This tutorial gives the reader a fresh look at how to follow and debug Scheduler jobs.

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