Andre I am running a website from my home I am using a free program like cpanel called zpanel on a computer running windows. you can check it out www.oc-chat.com.

But yet before I swithed to zpanel I was using xampp but if you need any help you need the zpanel, ftp and phpadmin

 

Thanks a lot Steve. I'll try it as soon as possible and i'm happy to know that it don't need a web based host to run oxwall. Thanks again ! 

500 error shows up when there's error on your website, it might not be related to the Oxwall software itself, but it can be caused by the 3rd party plugin, or server misconfiguration, there can be a lot of different reasons, which is why there's so many reports about 500 error. 

and yes, Oxwall can be installed on local server, like wamp or xampp

if you experience any issue with the local installation, please provide your OS, OS version, wamp/xampp settings screenshots, wamp/xampp version, browser version etc. as many details as possible and we'll try to assist you 

I already have moodle, mahara, wordpress, joomla and drupal  on this server and they all working fine. So i doubt that the problem would be on the server side. I installed it on centos and i always have INSTALL not found (install can't be found when it come to access my oxwall website).  

I had look on my httpd error log and my httpd access log on Centos 7.0, i have an issue with something like this :

[auth_digest:notice] [pid 22983] AH01757: gen$7: generating secret for digest authentication ...

[lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 22983] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor 

I look at the php code, and i moved all the oxwall files into a directory inside the site's directory. At the beginning,  I created a httpd virtual host and it point to /var/www/oxwall.andrehalle.org/

My root dir was /var/www/oxwall.andrehalle.org/. So considering that it would be something wrong, i create a subdirectory named public_html and i moved all the oxwall files in it. I made the correction in my oxwall.andrehalle.org.conf file in my httpd sites-enabled

Still the same problem. The same error telling me the INSTALL doesn't exist. 

So, i made a fresh installation on Ubuntu 14.04. Even if i did everything to make it work, still i can't reach my oxwall site. 

If it would be a server problem, every server that i have would not work. So i wandering what's the problem and where i can find an issue ? 

Thanks to you (sorry about my english i don't speak english) 

André   

Andre check to see if your php is higher than php 5.5 and if it is that is more and likely your problem.

Steve, my php version is 5.4.16 

Andre, try this solution: http://www.oxwall.org/forum/topic/32271?page=1#post-134496

Keep us updated

Ok i'll try that. 

Somehow, the directives related to the mod_rewrite related to .htaccess are in my virtual host file. Let say for this example that my site is oxwall.mydomnm.com. This domain is host by godaddy (still for example). 

On Centos 7 i have a directory oxwall.mydomnm.com in the /var/www folder. In this directory (oxwall.mydomnm.com) i have another folder named htdocs. Every oxwall files are in the htdocs folder. This folder is own my apache server (on centos the chown is made with apache:apache and not www-data like it is in Ubuntu for example)

I know that you know all these things but i do prefer to write them out so that it could help to resolved my issue, and may be other issues like mine.

The content of my oxwall.mydomnm.com.conf file in my sites-enabled folder is actually this : 

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName oxwall.mydomnm.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/oxwall.mydomnm/htdocs

        <Directory "/var/www/oxwall.mydomnm.com/htdocs">
                Options FollowSymLinks Indexes MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        #<IfModule mpm_peruser_module>
        #        ServerEnvironment apache apache
        #</IfModule>

        ErrorLog  /var/log/httpd/oxwall.lan-error.log
        CustomLog /var/log/httpd/oxwall.lan-access.log combined

</VirtualHost> 

In fact that is the same logic of every servers that i have, except the lines made for the use of the .htaccess file. My other websites doesn't need mod_rewrite.  

My .htaccess file is in my /var/www/oxwall.mydomnm.com/htdocs directory (this is the root of my oxwall website) and it is the file made by oxwall. 

But may there's some directory who don't have the good chmod permissions. 

Anyway based on what i wrote before, may be there is something missing or wrong. Thanks ross for you help till now, i appreciate it ! 

I'll keep you updated. 

I did everything possible to make this site working.

I installed it on godaddy ( http://www.halleandrei.net ) and it work fine.

In some replies that i've seen on this forum, the expression "Ask you site administrator to make this, or this ... this a server problem ...." .... this was the easy answer. I don't point at you Ross, i appreciate what you have done till now for me.

But quite frankly, there's something missing in Oxwall. It can't depend on the PHP version as i saw in this forum, cause there would be tons of problems for many other apps if it would be the case. 

May be there is a lack of explanations about the Mod_rewrite apache module, cause it seems that the main problem is related to this particular module of Apache. 

There is even a 500.html file made for this error. So instead of making an error viewing file, why it can't be solved by the team of Oxwall ?

If i give you a car and tell you "Check in the trunk, there is winch in it, you will need it if the engine don't start" I'm pretty sure that you would not trust this vehicle and even if it is given, you will not take it.

But i don't want to be rude, i just say that Oxwall could be something great, i saw it run before, if there would be a will to fix the code or to explain and know what is wrong with it.

So i'll try to debug what i can during the weekend and i'll keep you update.  

Andre, I'm sorry but we do not provide server software configuration assistance, you need to do that on your own or find a specialist. 

As to the error, there's something wrong with the mod_rewrite module configuration. 

Also do you have default .htaccess file in the root of the software? Does it have it's default content?

I'll ckeck if i have a default .htaccess files for the default-sites but i have joomla who use a .htaccess file without any problem. 

Anyway, thanks for your support, i do appreciate it. I will search for a solution. 

Thanks you Ross, 

Regards, 

André