500 Internet Server Error when trying to install

[Reeve of Shinra]

I'm 100% sure its something stupid on my part but I could use some help figuring out exactly what that was.

shinraonline.com -- currently running vb4 w/ vbseo url rewrites
xen.shinraonline.com -- subdomain for me to test out xenforo install.

I'm getting a 500 internal server error message when trying to install however one of the earlier beta's was working great when I did a test install on the same server under a different domain.

Any idea where I should poke around?

 

[Paul B]

Is there anything in the Apache server logs?
A 500 error is "internal server error" so it could be anything.

You could also try enabling debug mode which may shed some more light on it.

 

[Reeve of Shinra]

[Fri Mar 18 00:35:48 2011] [error] [client 76.15.141.71] SoftException in Application.cpp:256: File "/home/xxxxx/public_html/xen/install/index.php" is writeable by group

[Fri Mar 18 00:34:10 2011] [error] [client 76.15.141.71] SoftException in Application.cpp:256: File "/home/xxxxx/public_html/xen/index.php" is writeable by group

Changing the perms to 755 got it working!

 

[Paul B]

Good job, the "is writeable by group" is a dead giveaway in this case