500 Internal Server Error

I have tried installing the aMember Pro script myself and I have also asked CGI-Central to install it.

However there is a problem with the installation.

Upon accessing the setup.php script, a 500 Internal Server Error occurrs.

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

CGI-Central said to contact my hosting provider and ask why it was happening.

My host is telling me that the script is not configured correctly for the my server.

CGI-Central tells me that there is no error in the script and that I should consider changing hosting providers.

Again my host is telling me that there should be installation support from CGI-Central and that they should be able to reconfigure the script so that it will work on their servers.

Please help! I've got no idea what I'm doing here. I've paid for my hosting and it is non-refundable. This is the first problem I have encountered with my host since I signed up at the beginning of the year - everything else has been fantastic.

Alex,

I'm just trying to find out what the problem is. I have asked my hosting provider for the informatio that you require on the 1.php file. I am awaiting their response.

It is not that I believe either the hosting provider or the script over the other. I'm just trying to find out what the problem is and why it is happening.

We can only hope

Error Log

Heya Alex,

I've searched through my server and managed to find an error log file.

I have attached it so I hope it is of some use to you.

No comments from my hosting provider as yet.

And I do not have any other scripts running on this server. I managed to get the setup.php file to work once - but upon hitting 'submit' I got the same 500 internal server error.

That error has been appearing ever since

This just in from my hosting provider:

Please make sure your permissions on each script is correct and also the headers in the script is correct.

I've just received this from my server's support forums:

your syntax it wrong it should be <?php phpinfo();?>

http://www.tvsched.com/misc/test.php

mind you my site is not on one of these apache servers that everyone else seems to be on.

i think you will find that the use of asp style taging is off, which means every PHP codeblock needs to be started with a <?php rather than the <? you used

its good coding at any rate. the <?PHP codeblock start will work on any php enabled server, while the other relise on asp style taging to be enabled.

So what do I do now?

This is weird

I've uploaded a modified php info script that reads:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

I uploaded this file to two locations on my server.

Firstly, to:
www.frontrowcomedy.com.au/1.php

secondly to:
www.frontrowcomedy.com.au/amember/1.php

When going to the initial file (www.frontrowcomedy.com.au/1.php) it works correctly. I receive a reasonably long readout of the phpinfo on my server.

However when accessing the same script from the second place (in the amember directory) I get the internal server error. The permissions for both locations of the script are the same (755). In fact the only thing that is different about each script is that they are in a different location. The second script which is an exact duplicate of the first is in a subdirectory.

Why is the script working in the
/var/www/html/ directory but not the /var/www/html/amember subdirectory?