Getting Internal Server Error while trying to access my site

Question

I am getting this error.

Internal Server Error

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

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] 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.

Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.20 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_fcgid/2.3.6 Server at www.crimsonbux.com Port 80

Can someone please let me know how I can solve it?

Bowerbird

Does this answer your question? How do I get PHP errors to display? – Doctrinaire

Answer 1

you can check out the error log and get more information on what is causing the error. If you have an administrator gui provided to you by your host, that will be a good place to check. Here is an example video for cPanel (you will want to check with your host for how to access this report on your specific admin. interface):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzO1UNHZjZo

Ulrikaumeko

Thanks, you answer helped me to narrow down the issue. setting file permission to 644 worked. – Marsala

Yes! In the error log, the error said: "myfile.php is writeable by group". The file had "664" permissions (which means "6" or read&write for the group). I've set permissions to 644, and it worked! – Parvis

Answer 2

I am also getting 500 Internal server error. My Problem

Try checking the server error. In my case I used

cd /var/log

Then I used sudo cat apache2/access.log (I was not able to cd into the apache2 directory directly, so this workaround)

also try sudo cat apache2/error.log if it helps.

Goshawk

Answer 3

If any of the above or other solution is not working for you then have a look at this link

https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/public_html-is-writable-by-group-error.627391/

Here Cpanel community team member suggest that public_html should have the permission set as 750

This solution worked for me :)

Tedi

Answer 4

In my case, it was due to a Japanese space (Zenkaku space) in my PHP file.

For PHP, it shows errors to the client side or logs errors to a file depends on how you configure the php.ini file. Either way, I got nothing from PHP when there is a Japanese space in the myfile.php

Ganja

Answer 5

My production web_server had the xdebugger setting disabled in it's php settings. I reenabled the xdebugger and the server 500 error was replaced by the php script error in php page.

Corned

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