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[RESOLVED] Internal Server Error (500)

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ScottMH (talkcontribs)

System Details: Running on: Apache/2.2.14 System info: (Ubuntu) Powered by: PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4 MySQL: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Mediawiki: 1.10.1

I've had the mediawiki running fine for a number of years along side my vBulletin Forum. I upgraded the forum software on the weekend, which resides in a separate directory on the server to the Wiki. Since then the wiki has not worked. I get an internal server error. I've checked the message logs and a few other logs but I cannot seem to find what the error is. I've even uploaded the software again, but still to no avail. I've been looking all day for an answer. :(

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.redandwhiteonline.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

See Blank page. Without the error message there's nothing much we can do.

ScottMH (talkcontribs)

Thanks. I have put some debug stuff in my Local_setting.php from some other pages I've read here. But to no avail.

I will see tonight if this was one of them.

One thing I did find that I was curious about is the collation of the data structures. They are Latin1_bin which shows all the data as hexadecimal. Is this correct for the version I'm using?

ScottMH (talkcontribs)

I replaced the wiki index.php file with one that just displays the phpinfo(), and I still got the 500 error I put the same index.php file into another directory and the phpinfo showed up. I then renamed the wiki directory and the phpinfo showed up. I restored the wiki index.php into the renamed wiki folder and I still got the 500 error.

Permissions on the 2 directories are identical(755).

There must be something else that is blocking getting to the index.php in that directory. ?

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

See the error logs of the web service (Apache, Nginx...). It should state what the error is.

ScottMH (talkcontribs)

I can't find any errors in the apache log related.

Is it worth trying to upgrade it to the latest version? I just don't want to lose all the data I have in there.

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

For the error logs, read this.

Since your PHP version is 5.3.2, yes, it's recommended to upgrade, since 1.10 won't work on that version of PHP, being most likely the cause of the error.

ScottMH (talkcontribs)

I upgraded my wiki to 1.20.2 and it works now. Strange that it just stopped working.

Thank you for your assistance. Greatly appreciated!!