David

Ok, I'm still waiting on a response back from support about a site, but it has occured to me that the 500 Interal Server Error problem I am having is only affecting html files. PHP files are running fine, but html files are giving the 500 error. So, sites that are purely html or start with an html file instead of a php are coming up with the error, while the php ones are not.

Any clues as to why this is happening?

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David

Ok, adding:

seems to have fixed it. But does that mean everyone who ever gets put on my server who decides to use html is going to have to put that in an htaccess file? If so, that sort of sucks.

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Geoff

if its a dedi you have (your server?), you can easily append .html to that line in the apache httpd.conf? id suggest finding out why it isnt working, but that would be a fine temp solution if using phps handler works.

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mr_fern

Geoff's got it =D, but yeah, definitely gotta look into it, don't forget that whole thing about unnecessary usage of the CPU to parse html files as php files.

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David

That last part is exactly what I was worried about. I'm responding back to the ticket now. The reason it wasn't responded to was because they closed it. I think they closed it because of the way I answered...it sounded like the problem was solved because I said I may have solved my own problem. So, I confused them lol

But this sounds like something I could fix myself...how? Where do I look, what do I add.

Wait, better idea...I'll let them do it. I could short out the building.

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Geoff

my experience with 500 errors has typically been with a badly configured httpd.conf and cgi scripts with incorrect, headers? content-type in particular if i remember correctly. (ive been working with pretty much php only the last 2 years)

might want to make sure that the default content type setting in the conf file is correct.

thats all i can think of for now. im gonna be playing in my own conf file in the next few days, so if i think of anything else ill drop it here

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David

Cool beans. The more information, the more dangerous I can be to myself.

This was what I got back from the desk:

That sounds like it's basically passing the html through the php engine anyway. Granted, that does fix the problem but as Fern mentioned, that's higher CPU usage that isn't needed.

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mr_fern

That's my only gripe with some of support, sometimes it's not about the best solution, just a solution.

I'll do some checking into phpsuexec for ya though.

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Geoff

ya it looks like they did exactly what i suggested earlier as a TEMP solution, and a big part of the recommendation was as mr fern stated, will cause unnessary resource usage, which ultimately is causing a longer load time. for a small server without a lot going on it wont make any noticable difference at all. but start trying to run a site like mr fern there and youll want that fixed properly asap:P

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