Magento

I would appreciate some help with this install issue I have. I have searched the site for the solution before posting this thread with no luck.

My server is running php5. My host is JaguarPC.com.

I downloaded Magento and then uploaded it, unzipped the file in Cpanel and then moved all the files to the main directory as the default directory it was in was “/magento”. I then did a 755 cmod to the following files:

magento/var/.htaccess
magento/app/etc
magento/var
magento/media/import

I then went to the main site (http://www.CasualCatalogue.com) to find an internal server error.

I thought that something must have screwed up when extracting or the alike so I deleted all the files that had uploaded and started again. I reuploaded Magento, this time leaving it in the default directory “/magento”. I then did a 755 cmod to the same files as above, I received the same error so I did a 777 cmod to the files mentioned above.

I’m still receiving the error, you can see it here:

http://www.casualcatalogue.com/magento/

I hope you can help with this, thanks in advance!

I’ve been told that the issue is something to do with my .htaccess. In public_html, I have a .htaccess file and a .htaccess.sample file. Is this normal?

Here is the code from my main .htaccess file:

Thanks for the current help!

Also verify whether you have suexec you might have to use php.ini instead of htaccess

Usually a 500 is a php value that is not in the right place, ie. htaccess when it should be in shared user php.ini
Your error_log will provide more information to be able to determine what the exact problem is

txkhomes - 05 April 2008 11:49 PM

Also verify whether you have suexec you might have to use php.ini instead of htaccess

Usually a 500 is a php value that is not in the right place, ie. htaccess when it should be in shared user php.ini
Your error_log will provide more information to be able to determine what the exact problem is

Thanks for the reply!

suexec is enabled on the server. I’ve looked at the error_log however it makes no sense to me, can you or anyone else make any sense of it? Here are the contents of my error_log:

I had the same problem and similar error log message:

The problem turned out to be that after extracting the zip, the permissions on all my magento files were set to either 775 or 664, but my web host (midphase - shared linux) does not allow permissions to be higher than 755 / 644, or more specifically group and world cannot have write or execute permissions.  (See http://midphasehelp.com/support/questions.php?questionid=297) I would not be surprised if your host is the same.

The solution seems to be to change permissions of index.php to 0644 or 0755.  This worked and the 500 Internal Server Error was gone.

soben - 06 April 2008 01:56 PM

The solution seems to be to change permissions of index.php to 0644 or 0755.  This worked and the 500 Internal Server Error was gone.

Okay, so , that much got me through the install process, but now I find that the javascript menus on the backend weren’t working… So, checking the log, I found:

Can anyone help me interpret this—should I chmod proxy.php and ALL the .php files and directories to 644 and 755?  But if i do so, will magento still run properly?  I’m worried that my host’s permissions restrictions prevent me from running magento…

Thanks

Thanks again soben, much appreciated.

I’ve just changed the permissions from 664 to 644 and then checked if the error was still there, it was, so I changed it to 755, it is still there with 755.

This is my error_log, I’ve only posted the latest 10 error_logs as it wouldn’t all fit in this post as one:

I can’t wait to get Magento running!

I have just found this thread http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/1366/

I’m not sure if what setanta describes on how to fix it will solve my issue as in November, I’m sure this version of the script wasn’t released.

Would I be able to use any of the instructions sentanta gave back then for my issue? The .htaccess seems a lot different to mine.

Hi!

I’m not sure if I can help, but I had the 500 internal server error this morning and sorted it out, so maybe some of this will be helpful?.

I *think* that what happened was my host changed my domain php version default back to version 4 from 5.2 for some reason, so I had to reset it to version 5.2. It might have had something to do with the magento files I uploaded to the root directory, but I’m not sure.

Another thing I did wrong was to install the sample data first (in the media dir) and then set up the mySQL database and user prior to decompressing the core magento files. .(which the correct thing to do)

BUT, when I decompressed the magento core files, I wrote over the sample data directory with the empty media directory. So I think that screwed up my database, which was looking for the original files in the media dir.

Anyway when I sorted both those issues out the installation went fine.

Hope you sort it out !

Hi Hole,
I’m on the same host. Both your problems are related to the file permissions.

I hope you know how to use a terminal, if not this is a good time to learn it, probably quicker than manually set the right permissions:

ok in the terminal

Now you will have a working installation, however I noticed after using magento-connect permissions were changed and I had to do the above again.

I am running the installation with a modified php.ini to have some modules like curl etc. Download the php.ini (make sure you download version 5) from you cPanel and read JagsKnowledge base on how to use that php.ini file.

G’luck mate

Thank you to everyone who assisted me with the issue!

Gui, that worked perfectly, I’ve never used shell access before but I was able to pick it up easily enough.

Thanks again, much appreciated!

maybe this will be useful
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/26347/P15/#t352307