Comments on: PHP on Windows Server 2008 : 500 – Internal Server Error on IIS

By: Val

Val — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:55:38 +0000

Errors are sooo not helpful. As soon as I changed ‘localhost’ to the actual IP address for MySQL server instance and its port (e.g. ’123.123.123.123:3306′), everything started flying. It would’ve been nice to see something like “DB Server not found” or something…

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:10:16 +0000

i just installed CGI last night on my W2K8 server with IIS7. now i get the same error. so if i’m reading this write. i may have given the wrong password when installing so the IUSER Password may be out of sync?

By: Naveed

Naveed — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:29:26 +0000

Thanks. It helped me to solve my problem.

By: Garykva

Garykva — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:14:04 +0000

When I built a windows 2008 web server R2, I simply loaded PHP via windows platform installer. It will configure the server to use Fast CGI and it works seamlessly. You can also set up IIS on win2008 to use trace and identify errors. The Event logs are your friend, so ensure you look through those. I have been playing with IIS and PHP MYSQL for years. If a 500 error appears all of a sudden, its probably due to recent changes or some module not started. If you make changes, remember to stop the web site and restart it. Microsoft and Technet have IIS issue forums and there are MANY knowledgable people there, just presnt facts and hope they have an answer !

Gary K

By: Ajmal tanha

Ajmal tanha — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:48:52 +0000

Yaar I have also this erro but i use Asp.net what should i do to solve this problem.
can any one help mee.
Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……..

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:01:40 +0000

To be honest I love iis its simple to use and efficent and supports both php and asp and asp.net which is more than I can say for linux, until linux sorts out its issues and starts supporting multiple languages IIS will always be the most popular server for the professional developer as its not about the tiny issues you people seem to always winge about its about having the most flexible server to accomplish many different tasks and those on shared hosting may I suggest private servers though more costly (tiny amounts more) the advantages vastly outweigh the negatives, I currently run a private server and 500 errors are still an issue but only take minutes to resolve due to event log access and general permissions access, I run php and asp sites as well as some asp.netr features and also some server apps that keep all of it ticking over this sort of setup could never be achieved with linux/unix but on windows it was litteraly a one day job to get php, mysql, and everything else working.

By: Cody

Cody — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:23:03 +0000

And I was just about to migrate to IIS7 right after FreeBSD setup failed. Tried it out, our page came up and looked like shit so I turned on short tags thinking problems solved (usually the case), now its error 500 and nothing worked. Screw this. The permission bugs on this software are terrible.

Back to Apache 2.2 – Problems solved.

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By: Ben Jamin

Ben Jamin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:31:37 +0000

- Note –
I had the 500 internal error on a form post.

On SHARED hosting i.e. with Fasthosts, you CANNOT change the access to the folders as this would inherantly give you access to the other folders.

I had a problem with this and the only solution was to switch to Linux hosting, Fasthosts were telling me the it was a ‘script error’ however the script worked fine on one of my other servers (which was linux) after a couple of arguements with so called support in the philipeans they admitted that the php access permission on shared hosting cause problems! No Sh*t.

Switched to Linux – Problems Solved.

By: Kopi Tribulusdynamic

Kopi Tribulusdynamic — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:17:59 +0000

Thanks . This worked for me in a roundabout way… I was just getting 500 errors on my modules page,when it wouldn’t load.