500 Internal Server Error

Server Config
1

Hi,

I just tried updating MySQL to 5.1 from 5.0 through my WHM console, and since I did, all my websites (that run PHP) are showing 500 Internal Server Error. I’m not sure if this is perhaps related to my .htaccess file, as if I just put basic HTML in the index it runs fine.

This is pretty urgent as sites are currently down! Any help would be appreciated
:sick:
Thanks :wink:

2

What happens if you empty the .htaccess (or comment everything by starting each line with a #) and request the main index of the website?
If you still get a 500 error the problem is with PHP/MySQL and not with Apache.

3

Hi ScallioXTX,

Thanks for your reply.

If I remove everything from the htaccess file, I just get the PHP script in the source (because within the htaccess file are these lines):

Action application/x-httpd-php5 /cgi-sys/php5
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .html .php .htm

Does this mean the problem probably lies with PHP?

Thanks

4

Not necessarily. What happens if you comment out all lines except for those two?

Are you sure /cgi-sys/php5 exists btw?

5

If I leave just those two lines in, it’s the same, 500 error.

This is the exact same code I had in .htaccess before I upgraded MySQL, so I don’t see why something would change to make it not work?

6

It sounds to me like PHP and MySQL are not playing nicely anymore. Do you have an error log somewhere where you could look? (probably /var/log/httpd/error_log or similar)

7

Unfortunately I’m no expert so I don’t know where the logs are. :frowning:

This is really annoying as I thought I was just upgrading MySQL, I didn’t expect this to happen. I’ve sent you a PM to see if you could help out Scallio.

8

I have to say, I’m not sure it’s anything to do with SQL. I’ve uploaded these two files:

index.htm
<?
echo “test”;
?>

.htaccess
Action application/x-httpd-php5 /cgi-sys/php5
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .html .php .htm

This gives a 500 Internal Server Error. :nono:

9

jeffers,

Try removing the “5” as follows:

# .htaccess
Action application/x-httpd-php[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="4"]5[/SIZE][/COLOR] /cgi-sys/php5
AddType application/x-httpd-php[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="4"]5[/SIZE][/COLOR] .html .php .htm

BTW, this code SHOULD go in your httpd.conf file, NOT your .htaccess.

Regards,

DK