Hi,
I managed to install TikiWiki without a problem and now I want to install MediaWiki as well in order to compare both systems. I FTP'ed the unzipped MediaWiki files'n'folders into a new directory on the remote server, chmodded the "config" directory and its index.php to 777. But when I'm browsing to config/index.php I'm getting an HTTP 500 / Internal server error.
PHPInfo says: PHP Version 4.3.4 Linux 2.4.21 mySQL 4.0.15
Any ideas what to do?
Thanks, Hagix
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:35:55 +0200, Hagix hagix@hagix.net wrote:
Hi,
I managed to install TikiWiki without a problem and now I want to install MediaWiki as well in order to compare both systems. I FTP'ed the unzipped MediaWiki files'n'folders into a new directory on the remote server, chmodded the "config" directory and its index.php to 777. But when I'm browsing to config/index.php I'm getting an HTTP 500 / Internal server error.
Do you have access to the Apache error logs at all - I've never used that kind of remote server before, but there must be some way of getting at them I imagine. Because generally, a 500 is something going wrong with the script being run, and without reading the actual error message, there's not really any way of tracking it down and solving it.
Good luck, though...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowan Collins" rowan.collins@gmail.com To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] HTTP 500 error after installation
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:35:55 +0200, Hagix hagix@hagix.net wrote:
Hi,
I managed to install TikiWiki without a problem and now I want to
install
MediaWiki as well in order to compare both systems. I FTP'ed the
unzipped
MediaWiki files'n'folders into a new directory on the remote server, chmodded the "config" directory and its index.php to 777. But when I'm browsing to config/index.php I'm getting an HTTP 500 / Internal server error.
Do you have access to the Apache error logs at all - I've never used that kind of remote server before, but there must be some way of getting at them I imagine. Because generally, a 500 is something going wrong with the script being run, and without reading the actual error message, there's not really any way of tracking it down and solving it.
Good luck, though...
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]
Here's the log entry: Premature end of script headers: [...]/mwiki/config/index.php
Obviously it's not being run properly indeed. I already contacted my ISP but any additional hint is welcome.
Thanks, Hagix
Here's the log entry: Premature end of script headers: [...]/mwiki/config/index.php
Obviously it's not being run properly indeed. I already contacted my ISP but any additional hint is welcome.
Hm, nothing more? That's a shame. Is there a PHP equivalent of perl's "-w", does anyone know? Or, for that matter, a really easy way of getting it to print messages to stderr (like "Got here." etc) so that you can see if they appear in the Apache log (as I understand it, anything sent to stderr will)?
If it's not even *beginning* to run, I don't know how you could work out what's wrong, to be honest - all that error tells you is that Apache never got hold of the output, which could mean anything, couldn't it?
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