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blunders
Asked: 2010-10-15 19:49:19 +0800 CST

How do I trouble shoot an Apache 500 Internal Server Error? (restart, status, tail... then what?)

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Here's what I've done so far

[username@VMname /]$ sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart
[username@VMname /]$ sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
[username@VMname /]$ /etc/init.d/httpd status
httpd (pid  23043) is running...

Then tried running...

tail -f /var/log/httpd/error.log

That returned file not found, so I looked and this is what I see:

[username@VMname /]$ cd /var/log/httpd
access_log  access_log.1  error_log  error_log.1  ssl_access_log  ssl_error_log  ssl_error_log.1  ssl_request_log

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

linux apache-2.2 command-line-interface web-server 500-error

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    First:

    tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log

    not error.log

    Check your apache config file for a line with

    LogLevel

    I would suggest

    LogLevel error

    until you figure out the error. warn/debug might be too verbose

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