500 Internal Server Error

[bioshock]

uncommenting
rewritebase /

doesn't work for me

please help

 

[nccair]

uncommenting
rewritebase /

doesn't work for me

please help

Hi bioshock, do try these in order:

1. Uncomment RewriteBase / in htaccess
a) Access .htaccess in your Drupal folder
b) Look around for the line " # RewriteBase /". Uncomment it by removing the "# ".
c) If your drupal main page is in a subfolder like yourdomain.com/drupal. Change the line to
Rewritebase /drupal

2. Check permissions.
Ensure that your files are all CHMODed to 755 and below (777 causes problems after the update).
Look into ALL folders. CHMODing at /public_html does not affect subfolders

3. Disable clean URLs
After the Saturday HTTP update clean URLs (Drupal,Joomla etc) didnt work on some of the free servers.
Drupal will still work if you disable clean URLs.
a) Go to yourdomain.com/?q=user
b) Login with your root account.
c) Ignore any errors, Drupal does know that you are logged in.
d) Go to yourdomain.com/?q=admin/settings/clean-urls
e) Disable clean URLs and save.


If this doesn't help, probably your htaccess file is change or corrupted, delete it and re-upload an original copy. Otherwise check the Drupal documentation to troubleshoot as per normal.

Hope you will get your site back =)
If my post helped please add to my rep. Thx.

 

[bioshock]

thanks nccair now its usable.
switiching to clean url will distroy all my backlink due to creation of duplicate content
not good for seo
i wish this will be fixed soon

 

[Jarryd]

even if you fix the permission of it and its cgi if server is down then it still useless.
how can the permission be the issue when the user did nothing to his files?

its not about the permissions. its a server error.

In the news and announcement sections of our forums, there is a post explaining most new 500 errors users getting is relating to the permissions being too loose. Setting to 755 will help. The CGI issue was resolved already.

 

[stesouthby]

i have edited permissions and installing drupal and am just getting to install site and nothing happens got any ideas?

 

[wjh2303]

im getting now a very sketchy 500 error. My site seems to periodicly go from working fine, to being back to a 500 error without me doing anything to it: http://lifeinmegapixels.com