Apache Internal server error

By logico on 20 Sep 2005 at 10:36 UTC

I made a fresh installation of drupal 4.6.3, I uploaded the mysql table correctly, but I get an "Internal server error" when I try to access my site.

The exact message is:

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

Please contact the server administrator, postmaster@enocommerce.com 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.

I read in the support forum that it may be due to .htaccess, so I tried to comment out the suggested commands; I also deleted it altogether, but the error message remained the same (it is currently deleted).

My site is enocommerce.com.

I checked my database from PHP and it works fine.

Here is my phpinfo page.
Here is my setting.php (I did not touch anything beside $db_url and $base_url):

$db_url = 'mysql://db_user:db_password@db_url/db_name;
$db_prefix = '';

/**
 * Base URL:
 *
 * The URL of your website's main page. It is not allowed to have
 * a trailing slash; Drupal will add it for you.$base_url = 'http://www.enocommerce.com/www';
 */
$base_url = 'http://www.enocommerce.com/drupal-4.6.3';

/**
 * PHP settings:
 *
 * To see what PHP settings are possible, including whether they can
 * be set at runtime (ie., when ini_set() occurs), read the PHP
 * documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.php#ini.list
 * and take a look at the .htaccess file to see which non-runtime
 * settings are used there. Settings defined here should not be
 * duplicated there so as to avoid conflict issues.
 */
ini_set('arg_separator.output',     '&amp;');
ini_set('magic_quotes_runtime',     0);
ini_set('magic_quotes_sybase',      0);
ini_set('session.cache_expire',     200000);
ini_set('session.cache_limiter',    'none');
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime',  2000000);
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime',   200000);
ini_set('session.save_handler',     'user');
ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', 1);
ini_set('session.use_trans_sid',    0);

I do not have access to the Apache logs.

Comments

Internal server error

ulwen commented 16 October 2005 at 14:44

Hi!

I have the same problem where I have installed Drupal.
Have you solved it?
Doesn't seem to be any solutions posted in the forum.

BR
Ulf

I'm glad I am not the only one!

pdarvell commented 14 November 2005 at 13:39

Firstly - hello all, this is my first post here!

I have had the same issue as Logico & Ulwen. Has anyone found out the solution for this one or have any suggestions?

Thanks

Paul

Check your .htaccess file

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 14 November 2005 at 16:17

Check if your .htaccess file is correctly installed. Rename it and see if your site works.

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http://para.ro/en

I think we are getting there!!

pdarvell commented 15 November 2005 at 19:13

Thanks vrencianz.

I have removed the .htaccess file and it now works. Therefore it appears you were right and it was not correctly installed.

What do I need to do to install it properly?

Thanks

You must correct it

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 16 November 2005 at 07:07

You must correct it.
Or, send me or paste your .htaccess code here. I'll take a look into it.

-------
http://para.ro/en

How?

pdarvell commented 16 November 2005 at 08:16

What do I need to check to correct it?

I have used the standard .htaccess file that is in the download and have not made any changes.

I did try commenting out lines as described in another posting regarding a similiar issue. However, that did not work so I have just put the original file back.

Thanks

Try this one and see if works

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 16 November 2005 at 08:27

<Files ~ "(\.(inc|module|pl|sh|sql|theme|engine|xtmpl)|Entries|Repositories|Root|scripts|updates|cron.php)$">
  Order deny,allow
  Deny from all
</Files>

# Set some options.
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Customized error messages.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

php_value magic_quotes_gpc          0
php_value register_globals          0
php_value session.auto_start        0
php_value session.save_handler      "user"
php_value session.use_cookies       1
php_value session.cache_limiter     "none"

# Reduce the time dynamically generated pages are cache-able.
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresByType text/html A1
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

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http://para.ro/en

You sent me a mail ...

he_who_shall_not_be_named commented 23 April 2006 at 08:49

I removed this post

I've tried your .htaccess but ...

yesme commented 29 December 2005 at 01:00

Dear vrenciaz,

I have the same problem. When I remove .htaccess file, my site works but search tool doesn't work. So I think that the problem is in .htaccess file.
And I've tried your .htaccess but my site doesn't work.

I use a free host at www.free.fr

Pls help me,

I had a similar problem but

janner1 commented 21 January 2006 at 12:01

I had a similar problem but found that things started working when I removed the .htaccess file. Played around with it for a bit and found that the following lines were causing the problem:

# Set some options.
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

I just restored the original .htaccess, deleted those lines.

and now

stoltoguzzi commented 1 March 2006 at 20:41

had the same problem, your fix worked for me.
But what this means for the drupal installation, will some function not work now?

Solution by janner1 works on awardspace.com

moking commented 30 March 2008 at 17:28

Hi,

I am trying 4.7.0 on free hosting of awardspace.com.

Your solution worked!

Now I am getting the "out of memory" issue. lukin into dat...

fixed

janlazar commented 6 February 2011 at 15:32

I did commented this line, and it's working

# # Multiviews creates problems with aliased URLs and is not needed for Drupal.
# Options -Multiviews

.htaccess

jabba_29 commented 22 November 2005 at 09:55

If may well be worth checking your server error logs if you have access to them. Some hosts don't allow PHP dirivatives in .htaccess for example - that would thow 500 error if you put ant php_value type stuff in there.

Regards

Jamie

227net

I have the same problem

aacircle (not verified) commented 24 November 2005 at 11:37

I have the same problem described in this thread. I've tried renaming the .htaccess, removing it, re-uploading the original all to no avail.

Does anyone know what needs to be done?

All is fine now... got it

aacircle (not verified) commented 25 November 2005 at 07:46

All is fine now... got it working. Had the wrong settings in the settings.php file.

.hataccess Problem...Now What?

StevenSokulski commented 30 December 2005 at 18:10

My site throws me an Internal Server Error if the .htaccess file is there and if I remove the file I get 404 Errors. The 404 error message leads me to belive that Drupal is going after files with clean urls and without .htaccess there to assist in the rewriting the site is useless.

I've uploaded the .htaccess straight out of 4.6.5 and it doesn't solve the problem. However, I am currently running 4.6.3. I can't imagine there is any change between the two files but if you feel that may cause it and you happen to have the 4.6.3 .htaccess let me know.

I'm out of ideas on this one...I've contacted my host and asked for access to logs and for them to look over my .htaccess for problems so I'm waiting to hear back from them.

If you've got any ideas please let me know.

Also, I want to try turning off clean urls but I don't know the url of the page to go to. Can you let me know what that is? Or is there some way of turning it off from outside the site if I can't login?

Thanks!

Apache conf

krahe commented 31 December 2005 at 16:43

hi, i had also the problem. i fixed it with:

<VirtualHost ip:port>
...
<Directory "put here you path from the root directory">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

the .htaccess will override the predefined apache config. some server admins do not allow that.

-jens

did not work

lissa commented 2 January 2006 at 14:11

hello there, i had the same problem too. i removed the .htaccess file, it worked.. however it sucks that i can't use clean urls.. tried ur code but it still doesn't work. i am a total newbie with this stuff and maybe i did it wrongly. the part where "put here your path from the root directory" i put there /wwwroot. can u specify which of your codes that i need to replace and some examples maybe?
or is it because i'm using windows hosting?

I asked my host to enable

brunodbo

he/him

commented 8 March 2006 at 21:24

I asked my host to enable .htaccess use for rewritings url's. it appears he only allows me to do what I asked for with .htaccess. I removed everything except the IfModule mod_rewrite.c part, and it works fine now.

if syntax correct

kiev1.org commented 31 December 2005 at 16:55

even if syntax of yours .htaccess correct that such mistake arises if you wish to redefine ini-variables which change forbidden by global adjustment apache - simply comment lines and find which causes this mistake

it workd for me

uttamhoode commented 5 August 2006 at 10:02

hi all,
i was getting internal server error.....i removed .httaccess file and it started working..

DRUPAL rocks

uttam hoode
(india)

.htaccess removes itself

fudge714 commented 14 January 2006 at 03:53

Hi,
I've just done a fresh install of drupal 4.6.5 for the first time.
I've followed all instructions to install - the only one I couldn't was the grant all privileges mysql command - my server wouldn't allow it.
I'm also getting a 500 Internal Server Error. And have weird things happening with the .htaccess file. Whenever I upload it (filezilla), it appears on the server for a second and then it disappears again. Is this maybe my server having some special script to remove .htaccess files?
I don't have access to my error logs or anything, and I'd prefer not to bug my host as I'm just testing drupal out in a subdirectory and they're giving me free hosting for something else in the main.
Any ideas?
Thanks

wasn't showing hidden files - still not working though

fudge714 commented 14 January 2006 at 04:18

I'm an idiot, set filezilla to show hidden files on the remote server, and it was there.
Have tried removing it, renaming it, commenting out all the lines, uncommenting the line referring to the subdirectory. Nothing seems to work thats been suggested, always get the same 500 Internal Server Error.
please help...

Internal Server Error 500

westenkirchner commented 20 January 2006 at 07:21

Same problem - so I deleted all drupal files - I will never ever try to use it again - let be warned...

Internal Server Error

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

Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost 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.
Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)

empty .htaccess file solved my problem

westenkirchner commented 20 January 2006 at 07:34

I solved my Internal Server 500 Error

Solution:
1. write an empty file and name it .htaccess
2. upload this empty .htaccess file to your server
3. forget drupal

Don't blame

Heine commented 20 January 2006 at 07:51

Don't blame Drupal for your inability to configure Apache.

It can be difficult to do, but people here are willing to help. That is, if you are willing to work as well.

internal server error 500 miss configure

sanjith commented 11 June 2009 at 12:47

hey i am also getting the same problem !
Plz guid me to solve it!

Actually I need to upload a image with some content ! so I had used the cck & other modules !
It's working under windows
but in linux the files uploaded but preview not available ! PLZ guid me

This has nothing to do with

Zen commented 20 January 2006 at 08:05

This has nothing to do with Drupal and all to do with Apache being mis-configured. Apache is not Drupal, so please stop with the FUD.

And you can just delete the .htaccess file..

-K

Sorry...

StevenSokulski commented 29 January 2006 at 06:28

I'm sorry to hear that this issue has driven some people away from Drupal. This issue took me about 3 days to resolve on one of my sites, but that three days was well worth having such a solid CMS to run my site and not having to start over from scratch.

For those that haven't given up, hang in there. Its well worth it.

Idiot moron.

ninja@yaw-yan.com commented 17 March 2006 at 06:39

What an idiot, do you think if you use other CMS, things will go smoothly with your settings.

1. Drupal has nothing to do with it.
2. It's all your webhosting company's fault.
3. Drupal Rocks!!!
4. Your an idiot.

Et resurrexit

Heine commented 17 March 2006 at 07:15

Please do not resurrect older threads with random commentary.

Furthermore

This is nor the firefox forum nor slashdot.org; though I admire the love you seem to feel for Drupal, please restrain yourself
When using the contraction of you are in combination with idiot and / or moron, better use you're

Enjoy Drupal & your time on the forum

Same problem...

neo11yu commented 9 October 2007 at 22:30

I had same problem and I want to share my solution.
I had local installation of Drupal and needed to upload it on server. It didnt work on server.
Problem was in .htaccess...

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
# the rewrite rules are not working properly.
RewriteBase /

On my local installation, drupal wasnt in root directory, so I had to add here path to it. When I uploaded it to server, it was in root so this line had to be removed :P

Just wanted to contribute... :P

Thanx a lot

jan68 commented 16 January 2010 at 20:08

The post may be old but newbies like me still benefit from it :-) ...

uncommenting the line "RewriteBase /" worked for me too

thanks a lot

sakaianakdalam commented 9 November 2010 at 19:09

uncomment Rewrite / work for me .

***dont blaime if u dont know hwo u realy must blame.

solving and fine way to solving . is the best solution rather than blame on something :)

Another Solution

Rasman commented 6 March 2008 at 01:47

This has taken me 45 mins to solve, tried all the other tips in this thread.

I established that the problem was in the .htaccess file around the line

# Various rewrite rules.

RewriteEngine on

Thanks to one of the latest posts, I added

RewriteBase /

below - and that has fixed the problem. Code now looks like this.

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteBase /

Thanks.

ryantollefson commented 1 April 2008 at 15:47

Thanks,

With my Drupal 6 install running from a subdirectory I had to uncomment the "RewriteBase /" line in the .htaccess file and now all is well. :)

The "RewriteBase /" solution

lucidD commented 16 April 2008 at 00:17

The "RewriteBase /" solution by Rasman saved me a serious headache. Thank you so much!

Thanks!!!

marcel.klimo commented 4 May 2008 at 21:19

thanks so much, man ... I though I was about to call my hosting company and cancel my subscription because it was acting up again ... you're a lifesaver :)

Genius! Thank you.

charisjane commented 20 June 2008 at 12:31

Genius! Thank you.

Still not working

emancipator commented 15 July 2008 at 19:45

I have tried the solutions above and it still doesn't work.

I have just untarred drupal 6.3 and restored the original .htaccess and it doesn't even go to the installation page, it just shows 500 internal server error.

Any help is appreciated.

None of this works

elfinstrider commented 19 November 2008 at 22:04

Just now trying to install Drupal 6.6 on Parallels Pro / RHEL . . . Fresh install, full privilages on a machine that's installed Mambo and Wordpress without a hitch.

Nothing but 500 ISE all the way.

I've tried changing permissions, removing .htaccess, editing the .htaccess and playing with various php.ini issues.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. . .

drupal 6.6: Modify .htaccess will work fine

alfinsi commented 21 November 2008 at 00:43

Open the .htccess file, remark or comment 2 lines, so the script to be like this;

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
#Options -Indexes (1. remark/comment in here)

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
#Options +FollowSymLinks (2. remark/comment in here)

So the problem solve :)

Thank you very much!

Mamoun commented 13 May 2009 at 12:32

Sorry for the bump but I was having the same problem right after I have uploaded my site from localhost to the live production server and your solution made the error vanishes, thanks!

This worked for me

R1ch1ew commented 28 August 2009 at 11:38

Hi these lines worked for me on the Easily UK's new servers (account opened August 09)

Open the .htccess file, remark or comment 2 lines, so the script to be like this;

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
#Options -Indexes (1. remark/comment in here)

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
#Options +FollowSymLinks (2. remark/comment in here)

So the problem solve :)

Thanks for all the helpful comments, so glad I've not given up!

bump

BDeed commented 7 March 2013 at 14:38

Running 7.2 fresh install same issue. This worked for me.

It worked for me

betancourt commented 8 January 2010 at 14:36

Thanx for the help Rasman, it worked for me when I migrated my site to another server (Drupal 6.15).

Rewrite base solved it for me too....

rabidrabbit commented 22 June 2010 at 03:52

I had migrated from a test site where drupal was installed in the /drupal folder to a live site where drupal was installed in /. Changing the rewrite base from /drupal to / solved the problem for me.

It's works

nopice commented 27 May 2012 at 13:06

A big thanks to you!
It helps me to solve the problem. :D

Internal Server Errors

canyonbreeze commented 16 June 2009 at 22:10

There are several things in the default .htaccess that can trigger these. Some may not show in your error.log but may show up in syslog (if you're using Linux). Then again you may not have access to this file. Most of the problems are caused by some part of the main server configuration or virtual host configuration not allowing something that is in the .htaccess file.

The best way to troubleshoot it is to leave the .htaccess file there but comment out (#) every line. Then remove the comments from each part until your trigger the error. Once you know what triggers it then you can ask a specific question on how to fix it and someone will have the answer.

Suerte!

For me the following sections

RJW1975 commented 6 August 2009 at 08:39

For me the following sections had to be fully commented out of the standard .htaccess for a clean install of Drupal 6.13 to work. I commented out everything and then uncommented sections to test each part and these are the ones that caused me the error. Many thanks to all for help :o)

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Set the default handler.
DirectoryIndex index.php

# Requires mod_expires to be enabled.

# Enable expirations.
ExpiresActive On

# Cache all files for 2 weeks after access (A).
ExpiresDefault A1209600

# Do not cache dynamically generated pages.
ExpiresByType text/html A1

Found problems 3 places to

Gutte commented 13 June 2010 at 13:55

Found problems 3 places to get the 500 error of my website installed on my host:

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
Options -Indexes

and

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
Options +FollowSymLinks

and

# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.

php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.auto_start 0
php_value mbstring.http_input pass
php_value mbstring.http_output pass
php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0

So fixing these with # helps the 500 error, but i have other issues on the site now. Just trying to upload another logo or favicon will not work - it works all well on my own localhost copy. Iv tryed a theme were i can change the color, it destroys the layout of the website at the moment i try accepting changing the color for another.

Regards Anders

Mine was this # Protect files

afaaro commented 31 January 2010 at 12:32

Mine was this

# Protect files and directories from prying eyes.

# Order allow,deny

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
# Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
# Options +FollowSymLinks

# Make Drupal handle any 404 errors.
# ErrorDocument 404 /index.php

# Force simple error message for requests for non-existent favicon.ico.

# There is no end quote below, for compatibility with Apache 1.3.
ErrorDocument 404 "The requested file favicon.ico was not found.

# Set the default handler.
# DirectoryIndex index.php

# Requires mod_expires to be enabled.

# Enable expirations.
# ExpiresActive On

# Cache all files for 2 weeks after access (A).
# ExpiresDefault A1209600

# Do not cache dynamically generated pages.
# ExpiresByType text/html A1

Same problem when upgrading to 6.16

mamasdiner commented 4 March 2010 at 17:19

I encountered the same problem when upgrading from 6.15 to 6.16.
I tried the above suggestions, uncommenting .htaccess lines, but this didn't work.

I then deleted the .htaccess file which showed me other errors.

I reuploaded the specified files such as the includes and modules folders and the problem went away.

I then reuploaded the .htaccess file and there was no longer the 500 internal server error.

I ran update.php and no problems/errors.

Hope this helps someone.

subscribed

humanoc commented 16 March 2010 at 15:10

subscribed

Same problem

jalal.nizar@gmail.com commented 18 March 2010 at 00:03

I just upgrading my website to the Drupal 6.16 and the same Error: Internal Server Error
and I try to do all the above suggestion, but its not work!!

any new idea...

Trying to upload to 6.16 and

aamin commented 1 June 2010 at 06:53

Trying to upload to 6.16 and facing the same problem. Tried all the solutions mentioned above for .htaccess - commented a part of the code, uncommented Rewrite Base / , renamed .htaccess, deleted .htaccess replaced the new file with the old (working) .htaccess but it still shows internal server error. what else could it be.

Thanks for the help. Appreciate it

Awesome! saved me a late

tika commented 24 June 2010 at 13:00

Awesome! saved me a late night....

Major Bump but this could help

Jack Ellis commented 18 December 2010 at 13:39

I came to this thread because I tried to install drupal for the first time in months. I read through this entire thread and nothing helped me and it turned out it wasn't my htaccess file. I checked my error logs (in cPanel) and it turned out the permissions of index.php and install.php weren't right.

Permissions of index.php and install.php should be 644

Jack, the permissions indeed

Luki_be commented 27 January 2011 at 20:56

Jack, the permissions indeed can throw this error .... just today i contacted my host and, besides the .htaccess and php.ini corrupt .... reason, they told me that wrong permissions could be the reason: max. permissions allowed is 755 for folders and 644 for files (dunno if that's the case for all hosts, but in my case it is on the apache server). So i did a check and indeed i had some 777 and 664 permissions. After correcting that, the error was solved. So i didn't have to mess with .htaccess or php.ini. The only alteration i still have in my .htaccess file, after reading this discussion is:

# Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
##Options -Indexes

# Follow symbolic links in this directory.
##Options +FollowSymLinks

Don't know if that's still necessary but the problem seems to be solved and changing permissions is a lot easier ...

default.settings.php

zareen commented 19 July 2011 at 18:37

I messed around with this for an hour. Removing the .htaccess file did no good, as did any editing of the file.

Finally thought that I had not uploaded the sites directory as I did not think it necessary. As soon as I uploaded the new default.settings.php from upgrade version (drupal 6.22) everything worked.

No more error! Yes!!

when I install drupal 7.7 via

fanzheng commented 31 July 2011 at 16:09

when I install drupal 7.7 via a url like http://1.2.3.4/~timewill/
it give me 500 Internal Server Error too, but after I visit it using my domain http://timewilltell.me/ the error never shows. maybe should try a URL without special characters

ADDING MIME TYPE

songyh1996 commented 23 December 2011 at 06:45

I use bluehost, and I added a new MIME type for 7zip files, which was: application/x-7z-compressed 7z.
Then I realized in .htaccess file,

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]AddType application/x-7z-compressed 7z

this was written.
I fixed it to:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
AddType application/x-7z-compressed 7z

now it works fine! :D

Why .htaccess?

harman052 commented 9 May 2012 at 07:25

.htaccess file comes by default with drupal's other files and mostly during installation, it cause problem (500: Internal Server Error). Many users fix this problem by renaming or removing this file. My question is, why this file create problem in installation process and does removing / renaming is right way to fix problem?

What is the purpose of this file? What can we do with it?

Thank you in advance... :-)

Pardon me for me ignorance

narcisgirona commented 16 May 2012 at 09:14

Pardon me for me ignorance but i do not understand why drupal is including this file if the solution is to remove it? It is obvious that the "drupal guys" put it there for a reason, why should we remove it?

I am using subdomains. Firstly i installed drupal on the main domain but later i realised i had to use subdomains (different cities) so i kind of copied the main drupal folder to the subdomain folders, then i created new databases and configured the settings.php files of each subdomain. The .htaccess should be configured some how? and this should be in the subdomains folder or in the root folder? in both places?

Thanks for you help people!

PS: DRUPAL ROCKS! have to admit thou that sometime this drives me crazy.. however it is worth a try! :)

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