Blank white page - Console shows 500 error

[ashufelt]

Website URL

ashufelt.com

Error Message

No visible error message. F12- Console shows GET http://ashufelt.com/ 500 (Internal Server Error)

Other Information

I’ve looked at a ton of posts concerning .htaccess, and I am trying to point requests towards index.php, but nothing has worked yet. It all works when I run an Apache24 server locally.

[KangJL]

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Http error 500

When trying to access your website, you may see a page which returns the status code “500”. In Google Chrome, you’ll see a page with the error code HTTP ERROR 500. There are typically two reasons which can cause this error: The PHP code has crashed. The .htaccess file contains invalid rules. Here are some things you can try to debug and fix this. Fixing crashing PHP code A HTTP ERROR 500 simply tells you that the PHP code has crashed, but gives no information as to why it has crashed. Ge…

[ashufelt]

Oh shoot. I had read this before but I think at that time I was so focused on .htaccess, because like I said, my PHP code runs fine locally. I hadn’t considered the PHP version, so it turns out I was using features of PHP 8 that aren’t supported by 7.4.

This time when I read this, I saw the suggestion to turn on the “Display errors” setting in the PHP config, and after some confusion as to why valid PHP code was causing errors, I figured out the version issue.