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Hi,

I am getting the following error when I try to run the setup for the first time.

500 Internal server error

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

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@bayislandstourism.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at www.tropicalrez.com Port 80

When I check the apache error log I have this message recorded in the log: [Tue Jul 4 21:59:48 2006] [error] [client 66.82.9.77] File does not exist: /var/www/html/wpad.dat

I have ensured that all the necessary directories have been set with permissions 777

This is installed on a redhat 7 with Apache 1.3.31 and php 4.3.8,

Any ideas would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Mike

Hi!

Serendipity does not require a "wpad.dat" file. Did you maybe not extract the s9y files into a clean directory?

Best regards,
Garvin

Hi Garvin,

It was a clean directory created just for serendipity. It is under the root directory for the site tropicalrez.com i.e. http://www.tropicalrez.com/serendipity/

Do you recommend deleting the entire directory and starting again? Does it make a difference if it is a hosted site on my machine? It is basically a virtual site.

Thanks,

Mike

Hi!

Actually if you get a HTTP internal server error, there definitely is something problematic. Do you have a ".htaccess" file in your system? Are there any other error messages you get?

Because I really don't know why a "wpad.dat" file would be requested..

Calling "http://www.tropicalrez.com/serendipity/" gives me a HTTP 403 Forbidden error; could it be that the folders are not readable?

Regards,
Garvin

Hi Garvin,

Here is what is contained in the .htaccess file:

# -FrontPage-

DirectoryIndex index.asp index.html index.htm

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.tropicalrez.com
AuthUserFile /home/virtual/site10/fst/var/www/html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/virtual/site10/fst/var/www/html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

I have set the permissions for the directory as 777 and checked that is has applied them to the directory.

the wpad.dat error is the only error recorded in the apache error log.

I will see what else I cna find on the permissions, and any other ideas would be great, thanks for the help,

Mike

Hi!

Oh, this .htaccess file surely makes problems! Please remove it (back it up first).

the wpad.dat error is the only error recorded in the apache error log.

Does it get reported there with a new timestamp every time you try to install s9y? Or might it just be an old error that is unrelated to serendipity now?

Best regards,
Garvin

Hi

I had a similar problem

The way I fixed it was in the directory settings from apache
maybe this will help someone
I had to add Limit to AllowOverride
so as you can see I have now Hope this helps someone

can anyone help me with solving this problem.
It's been a year since I am using serendipity but two days ago when I checked my blog to read my comments I reached to thi error. I did not do anything to my blog. no files deleted ... nothing.
does anyone know what shall I do now?
Urgent please

P.S: My server is Linux

Oops I forgot to mention that you need to make these changes in your httpd.conf file.

Hi gorbechakmepoosh!

Please try to use the soltions provided in this thread, like checking your .htaccess file.

Regards,
Garvin