Try changing permission of index.php to 644

Salamoz, just wanted to follow up on your earlier post. Were you able to install the software?

actually where it is mod_rewrite is enabled? is cpanel or any

Contact your hosting service provider to have it done if not.

If in localhost, you can easily do it yourself.

I'm having the same problem, if I install using "Installatron" the script install fine, but then I have to manually upload the .htaccess to make the site work... but the "Installtron" metod have some issues, because it usually give me errors on files encoding.

I checked and I think my server (Hostgator) fully support all the system requirements, even has more features than the recommended ones, that's why I chosen them... But I can't find nothing on the error_log folder :/

If you could explain in detail about your issues, I can try to solve it.

I think it was something about file permission,  I changed the index.php chmod to 744 and now everything seems to works fine :D

Hi Valerie, Thank you soooo much... i was struggling with the same 500 problem for alomst 8 hours... i googled and tried all the suggestions given, but none worked... But atlast this simple chage of permission u have mentioned really worked.. thank you sooo much once again...

Solution for Error 500 - Internal server error

Insert the RewriteBase statement in your .htaccess.
Just after RewriteEngine on

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

If you are in a subdir then RewriteBase /subdirectoryNameHere

I hope this helps someone.

Quote from Valerie 744

I'm on Hostgator, and Valerie's suggestion worked perfectly.  Thanks Valerie.

Okay, i am having this issue but not all the time... If i go to join with a new membership it goes through just fine going to join now or from the login dialog.  The issue happens when i use this in conjunction with contact importer it adds a "?code=longstringrandomlettersnumberssymbols" after the website.com/join   have tried enabling the debug features and it has not given any kind of debug information at all then i also tried changing the index.php from 644 to 744 and i get the same result.  any ideas?  i will be checking with contact importer as well to see if what they think.

James, what is your site URL?

I'm getting the same error at www.chatterclub.co .I am at the installation stage. My host is Godaddy.com and there are Oxwall sites hosted on the same server as mine that appear to be working fine.

My site uses the .co tld not .com

http://chatterclub.co

Thank you in advance for helping.

Nathaniel Moikabi, check your server's error log.

Seems like you have uninstalled Oxwall from the http://chatterclub.co.

I have managed to install Oxwall by removing the .htaccess file, how will that affect the site.

Nathaniel, 

Yes, it will affect the work of your website, as .htaccess file contains all the rules, regulations and processes of your website working procedures. Which means that .htaccess file contradicts the mod_rewrite settings on your hosting server, which is not good and means that your server is not properly configured for the software to run and be installed. Please, read this post: http://www.oxwall.org/forum/topic/4661

I have restored the .htaccess file and I'm now getting the internal server error. I have reported to my host who suggested that I change the permission to 644 but it does not work. I have reported this to them as well. Please help. 

Please, make sure that your server is configured according to our server requirements: 

• Linux/Unix/Windows
• Apache 2 or higher (with mod_rewrite module)
• PHP 5.2.6 or higher with:
  • register_globals off
  • safe_mode off
  • suPHP off
  • suApache off
  • suhosin off
• PHP modules:
  • PDO
  • DOM
  • mbstring
  • zip
  • zlib
  • ftp
  • json
• MySQL 5.0 or higher
• GD Library 2 with FreeType support
• Mail server (SendMail, Exim or other)
• Cron

pay special attention to the mod_rewrite settings. 

Keep us updated. 

if all server requirements are ok, check the error logs on your server