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Guide to Standardized Hooks - Debug Mode

The Standardized Hooks System's debug mode helps to troubleshoot hook issues. For example, enable this mode when you experience a bug or to test whether hooks are functional. The tool prints debug data to the /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log file.

Warning:

When you enable debug mode, it will also enable debug mode in the cPanel interface. This will severely impact the loading and performance of the cPanel interface. We recommend that you disable debug mode when you do not need it.
We strongly recommend that you only perform these tests on development servers. This tool generates a large amount of error log noise.

Debug mode settings

To enable or disable debug mode for Standardized Hooks, we strongly recommend that you use the Standardized Hooks - Debug Mode option in the Development section of WHM's Tweak Settings interface (WHM >> Home >> Server Configuration >> Tweak Settings).

This setting saves one of the following string values to the /var/cpanel/debughooks file:

Tweak Settings option	debughooks value
Debug mode is off.	`0`
Debug mode is on. The system displays information about a hook while it executes, but does not log debug data to the error log.	`log`
Debug mode is on. The system displays information about a hook while it executes and logs debug data to the error log.	`logdata`
Debug mode is on. The system displays information about every stage for every hookable event, even if no hooks exist for that stage.	`logall`

If the system cannot locate a valid value in the /var/cpanel/debughooks file, it will use the debughooks value in the /var/cpanel/cpanel.config file.

We strongly recommend that you do not update the debughooks value in the /var/cpanel/cpanel.config file. Changes to this file do not override the values in the /var/cpanel/debughooks file.
The /var/cpanel/cpanel.config file uses the following debughooks settings:
- 0 — Debug mode is off .
- 1 — Debug mode is on . The system displays information about a hook while it executes, but does not log debug data to the error log.
- 2 — Debug mode is on . The system displays information about a hook while it executes and logs debug data to the error log.
- 3 — Debug mode is on . The system displays information about every stage for every hookable event, even if no hooks exist for that stage.

If you use the /var/cpanel/debughooks file to manually enable debug mode, your locale may revert to the English defaults for JavaScript elements. To fix this problem, run the following commands to disable debug mode and restart the cpsrvd daemon:

echo -n > /var/cpanel/debughooks
/scripts/restartsrv_cpsrvd