Edited a Chunk and No website totally down - Server Error 500

Edited a Chunk and when saved the website went down

Server error

500

The website encountered an error while retrieving http://mysite.co.uk/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.

Anyone got any idea what this might be? I removed the edits and re-saved but still not up.

I'm still able to access the manager page fine.

The chunk is a coincidence. Your host upgraded PHP to a version that requires the date/timezone to be set.

Resolved this by removing ampersands from the php

eg.

// Wrong way!
myFunc(&$arg); # Deprecated pass-by-reference argument
function myFunc($arg) { }

Use:

// Right way!
myFunc($var); # pass-by-value argument
function myFunc(&$arg) { }

I'm glad you got it sorted. Apparently, that triggers the date/timezone error when PHP tries to report the problem and throws a 500 error before the true error gets displayed.

I still think you have a problem, though, since unless the date/timezone problem is fixed, you'll get an uninformative 500 error on every PHP syntax error.

Quote from: BobRay at Jan 27, 2016, 12:59 PM

I'm glad you got it sorted. Apparently, that triggers the date/timezone error when PHP tries to report the problem and throws a 500 error before the true error gets displayed.

I still think you have a problem, though, since unless the date/timezone problem is fixed, you'll get an uninformative 500 error on every PHP syntax error.

Ah really? Would you be kind enough to explain what I need to do to fix that? Thanks again for your help!

It depends on your server configuration. Check your hosting control panel (CPanel?) to see if it has a feature for editing at least some php.ini configuration settings. You may need to create a php.ini file to put in your root and your manager folder to set it. Or if you use an Apache web server you may be able to set it in the .htaccess file.

http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php