[solved] 500 Error on login page

I installed the software on another server and go it to work.
The installation was successful however, when I got ready to
login at the mydomain.com/manager/ location it get a 500 internal
server error. I assume this mean a permission is worng somewhere,
but where?

Any help is appreciated?

One of the stickied topics in the support forum: need to know your server version + os, PHP version and MySQL version for starters.

Here is my server information.

Web Server:
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PHP version: 4.4.0
MySQL version: 4.1.13-standard
Operating System and version:
Apache version: 1.3.33 (Unix)

Browser/Client:
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Browser name and version: firefox 1.0.7
Operating System and version: Winxp Home version 2002

I’ve gotten that twice and both times it was a bad .htaccess file. The one in Manager has to turn mod_rewrite off.

Was it a fresh MODx install, or did you try to copy over your exsiting install to a new server?

Did you install version 0.9.0?

I’ll go with Susan’s guess on the .htaccess not being supported on the server. Got that myself last night in fact.

If you are using SEF urls, did you rename ht.access to .htaccess ?

keep in mind, there are 2 .htaccess files, one in root and other in root/manager/. you have to rename both if you want to use SEF urls.

regards,

zi

[edit] while posting , 2 posts already made

Good to know Zi, but strange... I had only renamed the one in root and it just worked... I changed the one in /manager but when you check it it contains a Rewrite Engine Off directive... Anyway, what is the point of having SEF urls in the backend ?

The .htaccess file in the manager turns OFF the rewriting so it doesn’t mess up the backend. It isn’t creating SEFURLs for the backend.

Ok good to know thanks a lot

.htaccess files are inherited, so the /manager and all its subfolders inherit from the one in the / root. So if you want something different in a subfolder you have to explicitly put in another .htaccess file in that folder with what you want.