diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/ResourceService.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/ResourceService.java
index 06b6106..0db2b48 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/ResourceService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/ResourceService.java
@@ -1007,6 +1007,7 @@
             user = controller.getUser(tokenContext.getUsername());
         }
         catch (KustvaktException e) {
+
             jlog.error("Exception encountered: {}", e.string());
             throw KustvaktResponseHandler.throwit(e);
         }
@@ -1030,7 +1031,7 @@
                     if (spl != null) {
                         f_list.add(sep[0]);
                         l_list.add(sep[1]);
-                    }
+                    };
                     results = searchKrill.getMatch(matchid, new ArrayList<>(
                             f_list), new ArrayList<>(l_list), spans, false,
                             true);
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/light/LightService.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/light/LightService.java
index e28b85b..1003e0d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/light/LightService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/light/LightService.java
@@ -313,6 +313,8 @@
                 && !foundries.contains("*"))
             f_list = new ArrayList<>(foundries);
 
+        spans = spans != null ? spans : false;
+		
         boolean match_only = foundries == null || foundries.isEmpty();
         String results;
         if (match_only)
diff --git a/src/main/resources/changelog b/src/main/resources/changelog
index 58275c3..e7e868c 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/changelog
+++ b/src/main/resources/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 13/10/2016
     - MOD: updated search to use new siglen (diewald)
+    - MOD: fixed matchinfo retrieval in light service (diewald)
 
 05/05/2015
     - ADD: rest test suite for user service (hanl)
diff --git a/src/main/resources/log4j.properties b/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
index cba69e9..2b8d2a1 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 # Root logger option
 #log4j.threshold=ALL
-log4j.rootLogger=INFO, stdout, debugLog
+log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, stdout, debugLog
 log4j.logger.log=ERROR, errorLog
 
 # Direct log messages to stdout
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/SearchKrillTest.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/SearchKrillTest.java
index 5e0c730..40fb0ad 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/SearchKrillTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/SearchKrillTest.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
     @Test
     public void testInit () {
         KustvaktConfiguration config = helper().getContext().getConfiguration();
-        System.out.println("'" + config.getIndexDir() + "'");
         SearchKrill krill = new SearchKrill(config.getIndexDir());
         assertNotNull(krill);
     }
@@ -56,6 +55,15 @@
         assertNotEquals(0, krill.getIndex().numberOf("documents"));
     }
 
+	@Test
+    public void testMatchInfo () {
+        KustvaktConfiguration config = helper().getContext().getConfiguration();
+        SearchKrill krill = new SearchKrill(config.getIndexDir());
+        assertNotNull(krill);
+		String matchinfo = krill.getMatch("WPD/AAA.00002/p169-197");
+		JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(matchinfo);
+		assertEquals("Invalid match identifier", node.at("/errors/0/1").asText());
+	}
 
     @Test
     public void testSearch () {
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/LightServiceTest.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/LightServiceTest.java
index ceb9a35..8a94c44 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/LightServiceTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/LightServiceTest.java
@@ -143,6 +143,40 @@
                 .toString());
     }
 
+	@Test
+	public void testMatchInfoGet1 () {
+		// match-WPD_AAA.00001-p4-5
+        ClientResponse response = resource()
+			.path(getAPIVersion())
+			//.path("corpus/GOE/AGI.00200/p13576-13577/matchInfo")
+			.path("corpus/WPD/AAA.00001/p4-5/matchInfo")
+			.queryParam("foundry", "*")
+			.queryParam("spans", "false")
+			.get(ClientResponse.class);
+        assertEquals(ClientResponse.Status.OK.getStatusCode(),
+					 response.getStatus());
+        String ent = response.getEntity(String.class);
+        JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
+        assertNotNull(node);
+        assertEquals("WPD/AAA/00001", node.at("/textSigle").asText());
+	};
+
+	@Test
+	public void testMatchInfoGet2 () {
+		// match-WPD_AAA.00001-p4-5
+        ClientResponse response = resource()
+			.path(getAPIVersion())
+			//.path("corpus/GOE/AGI.00200/p13576-13577/matchInfo")
+			.path("corpus/WPD/AAA.00001/p4-5/matchInfo")
+			.queryParam("foundry", "*")
+			.get(ClientResponse.class);
+        assertEquals(ClientResponse.Status.OK.getStatusCode(),
+					 response.getStatus());
+        String ent = response.getEntity(String.class);
+        JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
+        assertNotNull(node);
+        assertEquals("WPD/AAA/00001", node.at("/textSigle").asText());
+	};
 
     @Test
     public void testCQParameter () {
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/ResourceServiceTest.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/ResourceServiceTest.java
index c3b0e84..c541e7a 100644
--- a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/ResourceServiceTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/full/ResourceServiceTest.java
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@
         assertEquals(response.getStatus(),
                 ClientResponse.Status.OK.getStatusCode());
         String ent = response.getEntity(String.class);
-        JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
+		JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
         assertNotNull(node);
         assertEquals("koral:docGroup", node.at("/collection/@type").asText());
         assertEquals("operation:or", node.at("/collection/operation").asText());
@@ -451,7 +451,6 @@
 
     @Test
     public void testMatchInfoGet () {
-
     }