Getting error 500 "Internal server error"

D4SH3

Hey, I just installed the flarum software on my server.
The server is hosted by Namecheap shared hosting, domain is dashhacking.pw/forum.
When accessing the website it gives me the error "500, internal server error".

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@dashhacking.pw and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I would really love it if someone could help me solve my problem, thanks

Kulga

Some extra info if you can

~~Website URL if available~~ , screenshots of the error - dashhacking.pw/forum
Ensure debug is set to true in config.php
What webserver software are you using - does it match the requirements?
Php version? (in command line - php -v)
Are you using a VPS or Shared Hosting?
Relevant server error logs - 500 Internal Server Error usually will have logs saying what is wrong. Trigger the error a few times before obtaining the error log.
What have you tried so far?

For better readability of code, please place backticks ``` above and below.

jmap

Sorry to necro but this may help someone.

I encountered the same error after installing Flarum on a NameCheap server and the solution was to chmod the Flarum directory itself to 755.

MaikelVE

Hi! I have the same problem.

This says my error log:

[Mon May 15 13:49:02.086626 2017] [core:alert] [pid 32626] [client 138.197.214.190:58201] /home/maikelve/forum-test.maikelve.com/.htaccess: Invalid command 'Header', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

luceos

MaikelVE welcome to the Flarum community. Please try to open a thread of your own instead of reviving a very old one.

Your issue is related to a missing Apache module called Headers, you can install it using:

sudo a2enmod headers

MaikelVE

luceos 'll open a new one ;-)

polosson

Hi !

First, I want to congratulate you for this awesome project. It looks pretty, and very well thought.

Unfortunately, I run the same issue, when accessing /admin (or any XHR request)... I have a nice 500 Internal Server Error page, but that's all. And I use a shared server, on which I (sadly) can't access to the error logs files !

Here is the result (all green 😉) of the php flarum info command :

Flarum core 0.1.0-beta.7
PHP 7.1.22
Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, sqlite3, zlib, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dba, dom, hash, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, SPL, iconv, session, intl, json, mbstring, mcrypt, standard, PDO, mysqlnd, pdo_sqlite, Phar, posix, Reflection, imap, shmop, SimpleXML, soap, pdo_mysql, exif, tidy, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, mysqli
EXT flarum-approval v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-bbcode v0.1.0-beta.5
EXT flarum-emoji v0.1.0-beta.6
EXT flarum-english v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-flags v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-likes v0.1.0-beta.6
EXT flarum-lock v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-markdown v0.1.0-beta.5
EXT flarum-mentions v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-sticky v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-subscriptions v0.1.0-beta.6
EXT flarum-suspend v0.1.0-beta.7
EXT flarum-tags v0.1.0-beta.8
Base URL: http://robertforum.polosson.com

And, to complete the above, it's running a MySQL 5.5 server.

So, my question is: How can I investigate further about the reason of these 500 errors? Is there a way to force displaying error instead of logging them ? Or even better, to log errors to a custom file on the server ?
Thanks by advance for your reply 🙂. Cheers !

polosson

I finally found a solution to my problem.

The 500 error was caused by a line in the .htaccess file, which apparently was not supported by the server (I guess). The line in question was:

Options -MultiViews

I commented this line and everything is working like charm.

luceos

For whoever runs into a 500 internal server error in the future. The cause can vary widely and one specific solution most likely won't work on your installation. Therefor, try to go over existing discussions first, if none of them solve it open a new discussion under support with all details (flarum version, server specs etc).

Closing.