CodeIgniter PHP Apache 500 Internal Server Error

Question

I did a project in CodeIgniter. It\'s working fine on my localhost, but giving \"500 Internal Server Error\" on the remote server. This is my .htaccess file con

Answer 1

Posting this, just in case it helps somebody...

Other answers to this question assume that you have access to apache's configuration files. But if you are on a shared hosting platform and do not have access to directories other than the ones where you are supposed to host your files: the trick was to force php to throw all errors even if apache could not.

Open "index.php" that resides in the root folder of your codeigniter installation;

/*switch to development environment*/
define('ENVIRONMENT', 'development');

if (defined('ENVIRONMENT'))
{
    switch (ENVIRONMENT)
        {
            case 'development':
            error_reporting(E_ALL);
            /*added line below*/
            ini_set('display_errors', '1');
            break;
......

Making the above change immediately started displaying what was wrong with the code and I was able to fix it and get it up and running.

Don't forget to set your codeigniter environment to "production" once you're done fixing it.