I have a hosting account with GoDaddy so I can't check Apache logs etc, and I would have no idea what to look for anyway.
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Browse All TopicsI built a Drupal site at (not real domain) www.website.com/site1/ and now I've pointed www.ActualSite.com to this folder. Now when I go to www.ActualSite.com, the front page comes up fine, but any other pages throw a 500 internal server error. I think this has something to do with the base url of the site. I've un-commented the base url code in settings.php and pointed it to www.ActualSite.com. I'm still getting the internal server error. Please help. Thanks.
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Better to look out the host who provide support to drupal.
Anyway few things to check:
1) once you change php.settings, did you clear the cache?
2) In .htaccess file, comment out RewriteBase if you have
3) If the above two things doesn't solve the problem, then probably your links are the template file or in the database
a) if the template file, page.tpl.php, page-front.tpl.php and see if you have /site1 hard coded
b) if it is in the database, then you better export the database to a sql file and search and replace /site1 with / and import the database back
if you post the site url, it will be helpful to identify the exact problem.
Good luck!
when saying you first built drupal at "not real domain", does it mean you build it on your personal pc? if yes, then now you have real domain w/ godaddy and already tie that domain to your wan ip? if yes, then did you setup VirtualHosts yet? if no, did you setup dns yet?
check these guides to get the ideas
to setup dns, follow this
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=28
to setup vh, follow this
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=23
"Not real domain" just means that I didn't type the actual domain name in this thread.
In doing some more digging, I found the following thread:
http://drupal.org/node/890
Scroll down and you will see the following:
# If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
# uncomment the following line:
RewriteBase /
I uncommented this line and the site now works perfectly with clean urls!
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by: PsychoFelixPosted on 2009-08-02 at 00:08:46ID: 24997938
You'll need to check your apache log files..
normally a 500 internal server error means that your web server is being asked to do something that it is not setup to do.. (eg. you havent met the pre-requisties for drupal, or your configuration is incorrect).
check your settings. remake your .htaccess files and try again..