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500 Error on index.php file

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I have found a question very similar to this, which I thought would solve my problem.

However, after changing my .htaccess file, with index.php on the end of the list, and then index.php as the only entry, I still cannot get index.php to display. Every other page works fine, but I don't know how to fix this. Thanks.

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answered 1 Year ago bblerest · Accepted Answer

With a 500 error, you'll always want to start with checking your logs, in this case:

tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log

You commented that the error log indicated:

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'version' (T_STRING) in /var/www/index.php on line 1

This indicates that the content of index.php itself is likely the problem. Check line 1 for either a quoting issue of some sort (wrong number of quotes?) or perhaps the ; was left off the end of the line.