[Mediawiki-l] HTTP 500 error after installation

[Hagix]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rowan Collins" <rowan.collins at gmail.com>
To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list"
<mediawiki-l at 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 at 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