By jacka on

I've just installed drupal 7 on my local server and everything seems to have gone fine except that when I try to view the configuration tab I get a HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error).

I've installed drupal on:
Apache 2.2
PHP 5.2.13
mySQL 5.0.1

Its installed in a directory under apache's htdocs called "drupal" so when I go to localhost/drupal I can view the site and nothing appears to be wrong. I've tried creating and editing pages and that all works fine. The only problem is that the configuration tab in the admin bar (localhost/drupal/admin/config) gives me this server error.

I've never used Drupal, any help will be appreciated. Cheers

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koppie’s picture

koppie commented

Jacka: welcome to Drupal! You've done the right thing by posting here. Drupal has a large and active support community and I'm sure someone will help you. Also thank you for being polite - remember we're all volunteers.

I've been having the same problem. I'm a Drupal veteran of many years and am working with my first D7 installation. All the other admin panels seem to work fine except Configuration. When I press the button it sits for a long time, and eventually gives me the 500 error.

It looked like this was something that was covered in beta, has an old bug reared its ugly head once again?

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padfoots commented

Hi,

I am having a similar issue, except it is on a new install

I have tried both Drupal v6 and 7 (my server is running the same version of PHP as the OP).

After uploading the files to my server and setting the correct permissions (I have even tried setting all permissions to 777 just to be sure), I can not even get the site set up as I get a 500 error as soon as I enter the web address.

Anyone have any ideas at all?

Cheers.

EDIT:

Installed on my local machine for a test site, and while I did not get the 500 error, I just get a blank page. No configuration options whatsoever.

Hope someone can work this out. It may benefit others. Myself, I have just installed wordpress and it worked perfectly within a few minutes of uploading the files. I may visit Drupal again in the future, but unfortunately not until the install works.

Cheers.

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mixth commented

I'm having this problem too.
There was just a blank page when I've tried in my local machine.

I'm running
Apache Web Server Version 2.2.8
PHP Script Language Version 5.2.6
MySQL Database Version 5.0.51b

hope my information would help you to fix this problem. Thanks

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dalleyasaurus commented

I've been browsing for an answer to the same question - been using D6 for years and this is my first D7 attempt. I get a 500 error in the config panel, and also in the reports/status area.

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francescoNemesi commented

Same here, the configuration panel and the report status come back with error 500. I also tried to create a new site, but the problem is still there.

Has anyone managed to find a solution?

Thank You

bhushan_patil’s picture

bhushan_patil commented

I got that error in local server.
I changed my MAX_EXECUTION time in php.ini from 30 to 600 and it works.
Config page takes longer time for execution so change that in php.ini.

cheers

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designinmotion commented

Many thanks!! This worked for me! Before I tried everything: reinstall Drupal7, clear browser cache, clear browser coockies, ... No result. The php.ini setting did the job.

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drvdt commented

I repair in .htaccess
max_execution_time 600
It works!

My sites: Medicare

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SandraL commented

I'm having the same problem on a remote server. I just moved the site from one server to another and almost everything is working with this fairly large and complex site, but admin/config and admin/reports/status both give me 500 server errors and update.php gives me a WSOD. There's nothing in either error.log or watchdog.

I've increased both max_execution_time and memory_limit with no luck.

Update: update.php is failing on the drupal_load_updates() call, so it looks like there's something wrong with one of my contributed modules. I have a lot of modules, so this could take a while. *sigh*

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SandraL commented

I tried disabling and re-enabling all of my contrib modules with no luck.

After that, I decided to add some debug code to the drupal_load_updates() function to see if I could determine what was causing it. I should have done that first - turns out it was a disabled module (mobi_loader) that I had given up on long ago because it was so buggy. I deleted the entire directory and the problems went away.

I hadn't realized that even a disabled module could cause those kinds of problems - you learn something every day.

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technomensch commented

Same thing happened to me when I tried to install DrupalBin

http://drupal.org/project/drupalbin_feature

I manually deleted the directories for following modules, which I installed to make DrupalBin (which didn't work):

  • Features
  • Strongarm
  • Auto Node-titles
  • Node Clone
  • Geshi Filter
  • Pathauto

I did not test them one at a time, just removed all at once. This resolved the issue for me.

Marc K.
@technomensch
stayinginsync.info

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Cristian.Palmas commented

I tried every suggestion of yours - cache clearing, MAX_EXECUTION raise,...- and no changes, the configuration page still did not want to load.

Finally I disabled GeshiFilter module, I deleted completely the directory from my contrib module root, I refresh the page and after that, configuration page started to work.

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CarllosUK commented

Edit- any drupal newbies reading this, you're returning this error because your PHP memory limit is too low. Search for instructions on how to raise it and you should be good. Current PHP memory can be seen in reports > system reports

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mungostacy commented

I found the same problem, running on a test localhost site.

I suspect the problem was linked to this thread about http request status fails (you could check the Reports -> Status Report and see if this is coming up as an error):
http://drupal.org/node/222454

The issue here is the localhost directing update queries to itself rather than to drupal.org. There is a module to resolve this at:
http://drupal.org/project/http_request_fail_reset
As the details are a long way down the thread and I had already tried the technique of changing the /etc/hosts setting to comment out #::1, which worked for me.

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laxman2021 commented

I got that error in local server.
I changed my MAX_EXECUTION time in php.ini from 30 to 600 and it works.

Thanks for the Good Reply..

saved my time....

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fauxcrye commented

I was having this exact problem on a new site I had converted. I went to Reports -> Recent Log Entries and found that I had a folder in the library that contained no data. It must have been a mistake I made in copying over the data. The folder was for a PDF convert library. I deleted the empty directory and everything started working.

I would check to see if you are seeing any errors loading particular folders or modules. I didn't see this problem until I enabled the PDF printing module.

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mesterhope commented

hi ...
I have the same problem but i found something
when i install drupal7 in a VMware Workstation in win XP

it work corectly and had no problem with that tab

i think this problem is about oprating system

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Chimos commented

I had this issue on a fresh clone of a website. The clone showed "unexpected error. Come back later..." only in URLs: .../admin/config and .../admin/reports/status and some other.

The problem was my backup SQL export being uncomplete for some reason, the three last tables were not included. Exporting only those tables and importing them in the clone fixed the issue.