Solved: XAMPP "Internal server error"

[Gesp]

Hi there

I`m using XAMPP to test a blog.

However, this message shows to me now every time I try to access the blogs pages and in doesn`t let me in XAMPP`s user mains page.

Whats happening? What can i do to solve this?

Thanks

 

[MMJ]

Most probably you have something bad in your .htaccess. Take a look at /apache/logs/error.log

 

[Gesp]

the error.log has a message that says:

.htaccess: RewriteEngine not allowed here

What happens here? I`ve gone to the .htaccess and it has a single sentence like this:


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /xampp/mywebsite/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /xampp/mywebsite/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

What should I do in order to solve the problem?

 

[MMJ]

What's the document root?

 

[Gesp]

what you mean the "document root"?

It`s a XAMPP php database, so it`s in the xampp main folder

 

[MMJ]

Doy you have an htdocs folder?

 

[Gesp]

yes

 

[Gesp]

yes I`ve got an htdocs folder

 

[Gesp]

Well, I`ve found a solution to my probem: Deleting the .htaccess file.

Is there a problem with this?

 

[ehymel]

Not a problem unless you need WordPress.

To eliminate the original error, you should modify the apache config file to allow the RewriteEngine to work from the .htaccess file with the AllowOverride directive.

 

[Gesp]

Well now I`ve got another problem, it gives me a 404 error when I try to go to another page besides the home page.

What is the problem?

 

[ehymel]

What step did you take to get the new error... eliminating the .htaccess or modifying the AllowOverride directive?

 

[Gesp]

I don`t know. I actually never tryed to move to another page before the error 500. To solve the error 500 I deleted the .htaccess file.

Could this be the cause of the problem?

 

[ehymel]

Yes and no.

Before you deleted the .htaccess, the server was complaining that you can't run the statements in the .htaccess file, so the whole thing was bombing.

Now without that file, the server is telling you that it can't find the files you are linking to. The missing .htaccess file is *not* the problem. You're links are simply pointed to files that don't exist, at least not in the place the server is looking.

The statements in the (now deleted) .htaccess file would have caught the error of the missing files and re-directed to the home page so your website wouldn't look broken (like it is now).

Hope this helps...

 

[Gesp]

The big probelm is that the solutions I had found at the time for the error 500 where about oweriting some statements, but in my .htaccess file they where just right, there was no problem with those statements but the problem persisted.

So, when I create a new post on the blog thats attached to my xampp server, doesn`t the blog system create automatically a page? so when I click on the post it is viewed in its entire structure?

I mean like: You have a blog and you create a post that has just a sentence of home page thats an introduction. And when you click on its title you wanted to go to the page where its entirely showed. Doesn`t that other page be created automatically?