500 Internal server error while installing PrestaShop 1.7.0.x

[Tanatus]

Hi,

For those, who could encounter Internal server error 500 during the installation of PrestaShop 1.7.0.x

A small solution, that was discovered recently on some hosting providers.

 

When you try to install your Prestashop ver.1.7 you receive the 500 internal server error.

If it is not connected with php zip extension, then it is error with file permissions.

 

Open your FTP account and locate the index.php file from your installation (after you have unpacked the downloaded archive).

Change the permissions for this file: deactivate permissions from "all users" to "yourself" and activate "execution".

And that's all. Your installation will start after this small change.

 

Hope this will help for someone )

[rbuelund]

This also worked for me. So can any developer confirm that the permissions of the files /index.php and /install/index.php need to be set to 700 ?

[kar3k4]

Who is the correct permission? 

[Tanatus]

Who is the correct permission? 

Just edit the permissions for the file - like allow editing / writing / reading to yourself.

I'm not sure how to do it from some FTP software. But each hoster has online web-based FTP access.

Just locate your file there and click "edit permissions" or "permissions" button (may be through right click).

[SqualaDesign]

HI, correct permissions are: 755, 766 or 700...never 777.

[varkeychen]

File permission 700 worked for me well.

[marios1938]

Hi

Besides changing the file permission /install/index.php to 766, I also changed the PHP script execution mode from FCGId to CGI  from the providers web administration panel (Virtualmin) and the installation was completed.

[Ramiz Raja]

: HTTP 500 - error -

I am getting this error while installing Prestashop 1.7.3  please help me 

[francesc]

On 9/3/2018 at 6:01 AM, Ramiz Raja said:

: HTTP 500 - error -

I am getting this error while installing Prestashop 1.7.3  please help me 

 

I have the same problem and it is not resolved by changing index.php permissions ! :'(

 

[LineCP]

Dear francesc

Try to Install without to change the installation language (English).

 

That's works for me.

 

Christos

[francesc]

Thanks, but does the same

[francesc]

Resolved!

I reloaded all the files and the installation no longer fails me, I think some would be corrupted by a bad upload

[Zohaib-fk]

I used 755 permission for files and folders and it works fine on centos web hosting.

This can be done using ftp client software FileZilla or File Manager from Cpanel or SSH access to server with linux command chmod -R 755 /psfoldername

[Noneleft]

This is the actual error BTW:

 

Europe/London] PHP Catchable fatal error:  Argument 1 passed to PrestaShopBundle\Translation\Loader\SqlTranslationLoader::setTheme() must be an instance of PrestaShop\PrestaShop\Core\Addon\Theme\Theme, null given, called in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/prestashop_1.7.3.1/classes/Context.php on line 395 and defined in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/prestashop_1.7.3.1/src/PrestaShopBundle/Translation/Loader/SqlTranslationLoader.php on line 48

[Noneleft]

The only way around it I could find, was to ensure that int he beginning that the County was set to USA - UK or any other European county meant it failed.

 

 

[mr_absinthe]

On 4/11/2018 at 8:05 PM, Noneleft said:

The only way around it I could find, was to ensure that int he beginning that the County was set to USA - UK or any other European county meant it failed.

 

 

Thank you, this solution helped me as well.

[Sagentur]

Effectively! It has worked! Thank you very much (It's amazing that this works like this) ;-(

[varkeychen]

For Prestashop 1.7.0.x, permission 700 worked well. But for 1.7.3.1 it didn't work. After several trials, as per the direction from 'Noneleft' I installed it with the country selection USA and USA/Alaska, it worked well. I am from India and I have to change the country after the installation.

Edited April 15, 2018 by varkeychen (see edit history)

[msarmiento]

On 11/4/2018 at 8:05 PM, Noneleft said:

The only way around it I could find, was to ensure that int he beginning that the County was set to USA - UK or any other European county meant it failed.

 

 

 

Work for me. 1.7.1.3 version

[Authentic]

 

On 14/4/2018 at 10:40 PM, varkeychen said:

For Prestashop 1.7.0.x, permission 700 worked well. But for 1.7.3.1 it didn't work. After several trials, as per the direction from 'Noneleft' I installed it with the country selection USA and USA/Alaska, it worked well. I am from India and I have to change the country after the installation.

 

You have the reason! I tried changing the country to USA and work! Thank You n.n

Edited April 29, 2018 by Authentic
Error type (see edit history)

[varkeychen]

Good news!

Prestashop 1.7.3.2 solved this problem of country selection. I am from India and today I installed one copy with  the country selection India genuinely in installation successfully. I hope in future we can select our own country in the installation itself.

[Nodge]

I'm trying to install v.1.7.3.2 and I'm getting the 500 error before any installation starts. I uploaded the 3 files from the download package to my webspace and tech support at my hosting company are telling me there is an error in the index.php file ... "PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '[' in /home/sites/********/index.php on line 51"

I've tried uploading the index.php file again but no joy. I've tried changing the permissions for the file to include "execute" but nothing.

 

I've asked them to confirm what version of PHP they are running but other than that I'm stumped. Any ideas?

Thanks

John

[Nodge]

I've just checked on the hosting company's website and it looks like they are running PHP 5.2 - 7 which seems not to be compatible with Prstashop V. 1.7.3.2. So can anyone tell me the latest version of Prestashop that will run under PHP 5.2 - 7 ?

Thanks

John

[Mehrshad Zakerian]

I'd the same problem installing PrestaShop 1.7.4.0 stable on my Xampp. I read all the topics and found out this issue appears when you try to install it on different language than "EN US or UK". So I tried to find what causes this problem and finally I found out there's a module named "ps_themecusto" inside my modules directory. I removed that module and restarted the installation process.

Result: My problem was solved and I did not get 500 error any more. 

I'll report this issue to PrestaShop asap.

[Davet1986]

I've asked them to confirm what version of PHP they are running but other than that I'm stumped. Any ideas?.  Casino Online

[Alex Baldwin]

Davet1986,  nice  Link

[JB79]

Same problem... HTTP 500 error... Nothing has worked for me. But I have found solution. Problem is on hosting server PHP version. Here is a table where are official PHP requirements, but it's really not correct for a new installation of prestashop, not sure for update od PS. 

PrestaShop Version	Minimum	Recommended	Not compatible
1.6.1.x	PHP 5.2	PHP 7.1	PHP 7.2+
1.7.0 ~ 1.7.3	PHP 5.4	PHP 7.1	PHP 7.2+
1.7.4	PHP 5.6	PHP 7.1	PHP 7.2+
1.7.5	PHP 5.6	PHP 7.2	PHP 7.3+

I have tried many solutions (language change, permission change, but nothing has worked for me). So as a last thing I have tried was PHP ver. change from 5.6 to 7.2 and then everything was installed correctly with no errors in Slovak langauge (Prestashop v 1.7.5.1). I have tested PHP versions 7.0 and 7.1, but there was an errors too. 

So the solution for me was to change hosting server PHP to ver. 7.2 and everything is fine now for me now.

 

[thehurricane]

On 4/25/2019 at 11:03 AM, JB79 said:

Same problem... HTTP 500 error... Nothing has worked for me. But I have found solution. Problem is on hosting server PHP version. Here is a table where are official PHP requirements, but it's really not correct for a new installation of prestashop, not sure for update od PS. 

PrestaShop Version	Minimum	Recommended	Not compatible
1.6.1.x	PHP 5.2	PHP 7.1	PHP 7.2+
1.7.0 ~ 1.7.3	PHP 5.4	PHP 7.1	PHP 7.2+
1.7.4	PHP 5.6	PHP 7.1	PHP 7.2+
1.7.5	PHP 5.6	PHP 7.2	PHP 7.3+

I have tried many solutions (language change, permission change, but nothing has worked for me). So as a last thing I have tried was PHP ver. change from 5.6 to 7.2 and then everything was installed correctly with no errors in Slovak langauge (Prestashop v 1.7.5.1). I have tested PHP versions 7.0 and 7.1, but there was an errors too. 

So the solution for me was to change hosting server PHP to ver. 7.2 and everything is fine now for me now.

 

For me solution was the same, just changed PHP version to 7.2

[sanbikes]

None of this worked for me.

Does anyone have any witchcraft?

[Zohaib-fk]

We can use auto installer feature available in many web hosting providers.

For example Softaculous Auto Installer URL=> https://www.softaculous.com/softaculous/

 

[sanbikes]

Yes, but Softaculous directly installs it for English, and that's what I don't want.

   In my store my language is "id 1", and Softaculous installs English with "id 1".
   In my store everything that refers to my language is id 1.
This would cause problems.

Edited May 11, 2021 by sanbikes (see edit history)

[Zohaib-fk]

Hello Sabikes,

I found a useful tool name PrestaShop system requirements checker. This tool can help.

URL => https://github.com/PrestaShop/php-ps-info/

I had created the demo video in past regarding the installation process.

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by Zohaib-fk
Post Updated (see edit history)

[sanbikes]

I changed the settings in Cpanel> PHP selector> PHP options

Did not work!

Another information I omitted, my server is "LiteSpeed"

I'm almost giving up, 300 solutions none work😢

Edited May 11, 2021 by sanbikes (see edit history)

[Nickz]

On 5/10/2021 at 6:49 PM, sanbikes said:

None of this worked for me.

What is your issue?

the same 500 Error? How far did you come?

[sanbikes]

The installation of Prestashop is not complete.
And a 500 timeout message appears.

I didn't want to, but I had to do it with Softaculous, except that it doesn't give me the option to choose my language at the time of installation, this technically gave me a lot of work, because my tables referring to language _lang ids were all number 1.
I had to replace everything with 2

[Nickz]

36 minutes ago, sanbikes said:

And a 500 timeout message appears.

What server you are on?

Cpanel access you have?

[sanbikes]

Litespeed
Yes, I have access.

But I solved the installation in another way using Softaculous  😃

[sanbikes]

I have another problem, when I activate error log I get this warning  😓

 

Fatal error: Class 'ObjectModel' not found in /home.../public_html/storename/classes/Configuration.php on line 30

PS 1.7.7.4
PHP 7.2
Litespeed Server

[Nickz]

1 hour ago, sanbikes said:

ObjectModel

look up stack overflow there are a few comments which could give you a hint.

[sanbikes]

I looked in several post-occurrence cases, but no file path that I should edit to correct, only this message 

 

Fatal error: Class 'ObjectModel' not found in

[Irualz]

I'm installing PrestaShop for the first time so this is all new to me. 

I am using cPanel and I have uploaded prestashop.zip to public_html and extracted the files.

I get "Internal Server Error" when trying to launch the installer. I'm doing that by simply entering my domain in browser (www.mydomain.com).

Presta version 1.7.7.8

[Nickz]

7 hours ago, Irualz said:

I get "Internal Server Error" when trying to launch the installer.

check the requierements https://devdocs.prestashop.com/1.7/basics/installation/system-requirements/

Thee is a lot to check.

[Irualz]

Thanks for the tip. I ran the PHP info system requirements tool and everything else is ok except for

• max_input_vars under PHP configuration (current 1000, recommended 5000)
• memcached under PHP extensions (No vs. Yes)

My PHP version is 7.4.23 and recommended is 7.1 but that shouldn't have effect I believe?

 

[Irualz]

On 9/23/2021 at 9:47 PM, Irualz said:

Thanks for the tip. I ran the PHP info system requirements tool and everything else is ok except for

• max_input_vars under PHP configuration (current 1000, recommended 5000)
• memcached under PHP extensions (No vs. Yes)

My PHP version is 7.4.23 and recommended is 7.1 but that shouldn't have effect I believe?

 

Should there be an error log or such in my bluehost server? I really have no idea how to go forward from here. Should I maybe try some earlier PrestaShop versions instead of 1.7.7.8?

[Nickz]

4 hours ago, Irualz said:

My PHP version is 7.4.23 and recommended is 7.1 but that shouldn't have effect I believe?

Try it. Bluehost is not the best choice for a business startup. Specially when shared server. PHP uploads you change in php.ini for the version your server runs on.

 

[donato06]

buon giorno

prima installazione di PS 1.7.8.6 su hosting Aruba

https://www.domaoffice.it/install/ 

www.domaoffice.it al momento non è in grado di gestire la richiesta.
HTTP ERROR 500, come posso risolvere, grazie 

[donato06]

1 hour ago, donato06 said:

Buongiorno

prima installazione di PS 1.7.8.6 su hosting Aruba

https://www.domaoffice.it/install/ 

www.domaoffice.it al momento non è in grado di gestire la richiesta.
HTTP ERROR 500, posso come risolvere, grazie 

ho trovato questo errore dopo il test phppsinfo come posso risolvere ? grazie

[Nickz]

3 hours ago, donato06 said:

ho trovato questo errore dopo il test phppsinfo come posso risolvere ? grazie

you go to your repsective PHP folder under etc/php/xxxxx and edit the php.ini file.
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