500 Internal Server Error

diddy

Hello,

Just came across flarum and decided to set it up on XAMPP to have a look and a play with but I have run into an error.

I ran the composer command to install all fine but when ever I go to localhost I get 500 Internal Server Error.

This is in apache/logs
[Mon Dec 21 21:00:13.705198 2015] [core:error] [pid 7032:tid 1856] [client ::1:56131] AH00124: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

I read somewhere its something to do with .htaccess?

Any guidance would be great as I have just installed it and not touched any code so idk whats up.

Thanks,
Josh

Kulga

diddy

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error.

Don't bother with increasing the limit of internal redirects. In your config something is causing it to redirect to some kind of infinite loop.
Kind like linking the directory foo to ./foo
That would cause you to be able to change directory to

cd foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/

I would greatly suggest posting your .htaccess if that's where you're doing your redirects.

Edit: you mention you just installed it without changing anything. Have you modified anything in your /etc/apache*/ files that might involve redirects?

diddy

Kulga

I haven't touched any files in /etc/apache*/ xammp is also a fresh install I should of mentioned.
Also I wasn't too keen increasing the internal redirect limit too for that very reason.

Maybe @luceos would be able to give advice?

luceos

You might want to delete your cache - but I fear that will not help you at all - and as Kulga pointed out, I'd advice you to post your htaccess or apache configuration. There can't be any other cause.

diddy

Thanks for the reply luceos

Below is my httpd.conf & .htaccess
httpd.conf -
.htaccess -

luceos

diddy Did you install Flarum in a subdirectory or -domain?

diddy

luceos I installed it in C:\xampp\htdocs with composer
composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta

msiemens

I have the same problem. I've installed Flarum in a subdomain with composer create-project flarum/flarum . --stability=beta. Loading the frontpage works fine, but any access to api/ or admin/ fails with a 500 error. The error log mentiones the same problem:

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

I'm using Flarum with unchanged the configs/htaccess.

msiemens

Looks like I found a fix. I've added RewriteBase / to the htaccess and the probem went away. I still don't know what the actual cause of the problem was...

luceos

msiemens Nice you have found the issue. Can you let us know with the release of beta-5 whether you experience the same issues?

msiemens

luceos Sure! beta-5 is still unreleased, right? Do you have a rough ETA?

PatrickMcMahon

Where did you add RewriteBase / in the file?

msiemens

Right below the RewriteEngine on directive.

ibnux

i get same problem
the problem at the module for apache
i need to enable all module in .htaccess
this is how i fix it
a2enmod authz_core
a2enmod mod_rewrite
a2enmod deflate
a2enmod filter
a2enmod expires

but my real problem at
Header unset Proxy
because there are no check is enable like this
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
RequestHeader unset Proxy
</IfModule>
this will fix it
a2enmod headers

just share, if someone get same error and landing to this page

f0r3v3r

Same thing happens to me on a fresh install of Beta 6
Adding:

RewriteBase /

in to the Rewrite rules in the .htaccess does seem to correct it.

However, I was also seeing this line in the error logs:

forum/.htaccess: Invalid command 'Header', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Which is caused by this line in .htaccess:

# Fix for https://httpoxy.org vulnerability
Header unset Proxy

I would like to suggest either the .htaccess should be revisited...

Something like implementing Header unset Proxy fix at the webserver level is trivial, imho.

nibreh

Hi.

I have the same problem, 500 Internal Server Error after install flarum with composer via ssh on web server apache.

.htaccess: Invalid command 'Header', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

After install headers module and restart apache, problem was solved.

a2enmod headers

I suggest to add this requirement in http://flarum.org/docs/installation

wignu

That is awesome @nibreh, I'd scratched my head over the issue for a while now and finally your solution has fixed it ?

Would definitely back having it added to the installation docs too.

buttam

Adding RewriteBase / to the .htaccess file, just below RewriteEngine on works in most of the cases.