Softaculous drupal HTTP ERROR 500

[Paul_drupal]

Website URL

(https://www.standrewstotteridgepta.co.uk/)

Error Message

HTTP ERROR 500

Other Information

When I do a Softaculous Wordpress install it works perfectly so this is specific to Drupal

[ChrisPAR]

Can you enable “Display Errors” to get the actual error message?

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. Gett…

[Paul_drupal]

Thank you.

I now have the following:

Parse error : syntax error, unexpected ‘static’ (T_STATIC) in /home/vol16_2/infinityfree.com/if0_35180123/htdocs/vendor/symfony/http-foundation/Request.php on line 300

[ChrisPAR]

Thank you. Looking up the issue, I could find this:

unexpected 'static' (T_STATIC)

It seems that the issue is created by Symfony requiring PHP 8.1+. As the migration to PHP 8.2 is still ongoing, it’s possible your server hasn’t been upgraded yet.

Can you check your current PHP version by creating a PHP file with the following code and then visiting it?

<?php
    phpinfo();

[Paul_drupal]

@ChrisPAR

<?php
    phpinfo();

Correct, thank you. I have PHP Version 7.4.8. What is the best option here?

[Ziverre]

You can migrate your website to another website account, chances are there that the new account will have PHP8.2

[ChrisPAR]

As an alternative, you can try finding the last version of Drupal that supports PHP 7.4 and then plan an upgrade to the PHP 8.2 version when the PHP upgrade comes to your server.

[Paul_drupal]

Thank you