Forums: Error 500 on localhost installation

  1. fredriley : Member | 6 months ago

    Hi

    I read about Omeka in the latest Scout bulletin and thought I'd give it a go on my Macbook, running it on localhost with XAMPP:

    PHP 5.3.0
    MySQL 5.1.37

    I downloaded v1.1 and unzipped the archive, put it into local web space, and tried to access it at http://localhost/~fredriley/test/omeka after cranking up XAMPP. I got an error 500. Another curiousity is that when accessing the parent directory, the /omeka directory didn't list even though it has the same permissions and owners as the other dirs:

    drwxr-xr-x 7 fredrile fredrile 238 Feb 5 18:27 .
    drwxr-xr-x 22 fredrile fredrile 748 Jan 5 18:29 ..
    -rw-r--r-- 1 fredrile fredrile 6148 Feb 5 18:24 .DS_Store
    drwxr-xr-x 37 fredrile fredrile 1258 Jan 15 20:35 PHP
    drwxr-xr-x 25 fredrile fredrile 850 Nov 6 13:17 dotproject
    drwxr-xr-x 2 fredrile fredrile 68 Oct 28 20:48 images
    drwxr-xr-x 17 fredrile fredrile 578 Oct 15 14:42 omeka

    I had a look at the Apache error log in /var/log/httpd/ but there were no entries for today.

    I've edited the db.ini file as follows:

    [database]
    host = "localhost"
    username = "root"
    password = ""
    name = "omeka"
    prefix = "omeka_"
    ;port = ""

    That is the correct user and pass for the local mySQL installation.

    I did have a look in the docs and forum for "error 500" and hit:

    http://omeka.org/forums/topic/install-errors
    http://omeka.org/forums/topic/admin-login

    but neither thread was directly relevant.

    Does anyone have any suggestions? This smells of a .htaccess error but in the latter thread above users are advised against .htaccess editing.

  2. SheilaBrennan : Omeka Outreach Team | 6 months ago

    Here is a thread on XAMPP that you might want to read through.
    http://omeka.org/forums/topic/installing-omeka-on-xampp

    We don't support XAMPP specifically, but if anyone else has ideas please jump in.

  3. fredriley : Member | 6 months ago

    Thanks for the reply and pointer, Sheila. I didn't think to look for XAMPP in the forums. I don't think the thread you quote is relevant as the original poster's problem is a Zend error. In one of the replies wanderingwill wrote that he:

    "was able to successfully install Omeka on XAMPP for the Mac under the /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs directory, although XAMPP had .htaccess problems for mod_rewrite and setting php settings under my user's Sites directory. "

    He didn't specify what the problems were, though. I don't think that this is a XAMPP issue in particular - XAMPP is purely a handy bundle with Apache, mySQL and PHP, so any errors it throws will be related to one of these three. I still think that there's a smell of a .htaccess problem with the error 500, but my eyes glazed over when I looked at the mod_rewrites in the code as I'm not much good at regexes. Maybe I should try to comment out lines and see what happens?

    I'll give it a go on a Windoze machine with XAMPP to see if the problem recurs. I do have an old tin box running Linux upstairs but I've not cranked that up in a while.

    Fred

  4. wanderingwill : Omeka Dev Team | 6 months ago

    Have you tried using MAMP?

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