HTTP error 500

[HitRaj 47]

I am getting a HTTP error 500 error whilst trying to display my web page. The hosting company I am using is http://www.bytehost.com and they are running PHP 5.2.9.

I am using this free host for a college project, but I do have my own paid hosting. The thing is, it displays correctly on my own hosting, which is also on PHP 5.

The page I am trying to display is using the Smarty templating engine. The error seems to be with the display() method of the Smarty() class, because when I commented it out, the page displayed but with PHP errors.

Here is my index.php code:

<?php

// Require the Smarty template file
require_once('inc/smarty/Smarty.class.php');

// Initialize new template
$template = new Smarty();

// Configure Smarty templtae variables
$template->template_dir = 'inc/smarty/templates';
$template->compile_dir = 'inc/smarty/templates_c';
$template->cache_dir = 'inc/smarty/cache';
$template->config_dir = 'inc/smarty/configs';

// Create page variables
$page_title = 'Welcome';    // Page title
$site_url = 'http://stiefel.byethost5.com';    // Web site base URL
$site_css = 'stiefel_default.css';    // CSS file to use
$employee_login = '<a href="#">Employee Login</a>';    // Employee login link

// Navigation bar
$navlist = '<ul id="navlist">
            <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Products</a>
                 <ul class="submenu">
                       <li><a href="#">Search</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">View all products</a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href="#">Blog</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
            </ul>';
            
// Customer login
$customer_login = '<form id="form1" method="post" action="">
      <p>Customer Login:</p>
      <p>
        <label>Username:
          <input type="text" name="username" id="username" />
        </label>
      </p>
      <p>
        <label>Password:
          <input type="text" name="password" id="password" />
        </label>
      </p>
      <p>
          <input type="submit" name="login" id="login" value="Login" />
          <br />
          <a href="#">Register</a> | <a href="#">Forgot password</a>
      </p>
    </form>';
    
// Page content
$page_content = '<p>Welcome to Stiefel Laboratories home page. Give us all your money and we will supply you with drugs.</p>';

// Assign template variables
$template->assign( 'page_title', $page_title );
$template->assign( 'site_url', $site_url );
$template->assign( 'site_css', $site_css );
$template->assign( 'employee_login', $employee_login );
$template->assign( 'navlist', $navlist );
$template->assign( 'customer_login', $customer_login );
$template->assign( 'page_content', $page_content );

// Display template
$template->display('stiefel.tpl');

?>

The phpinfo() page for my free hosting is located here, if it helps: http://stiefel.byethost5.com/potatoes.php

Thanks for any help!

[Dan Grossman]

Is there anything in your error_log?

[Cups]

Did you have to upload a .htaccess file?

That is one of the biggest provider of 500s in my limited experience.

(If you suspect this is the case and you want to debug it, U may need to tell the .htaccess to log errors though, or just remove it for a while)