error http 500

[neginf]

New to CakePHP. Reading tutorials.

Need to get an old CakePHP 1.3.2 project to run. It was made by someone else.

 

Can look at a test site that is running and have a copy of the code that site uses in directories starting with app/. Also there is an index.php in the directory above app/.

Have data and am able to query it with a basic CakePHP program that isn't part of the project.

 

The url for the test site is like http://agroup.ab.aml/brd and when clicked on turns to http://agroup.ab.aml/brd/index.php/admin/user/add and gets an error "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage."

If you backspace to http://agroup.ab.aml/brd/index.php/admin/user you get the same error.

If you backspace to http://agroup.ab.aml/brd/index.php/admin you get part of a CakePHP program with what looks like a custom error saying "requested address admin/ was not be found on this server."

If you backspace to http://agroup.ab.aml/brd/index.php, it automatically goes to http://agroup.ab.brd/index.php/users/login and get the whole 1st page of the CakePHP program.

 

Tried to get the code I was given to run but when I try the urls above, I get "The website cannot display the page http 500", even with a url that looks just like the one that works on the test site.

 

1. What causes the urls to automatically change ?

2. What can cause the error http 500 if the directories, programs, and urls match ?

 

[requinix]

1. Probably Cake.

2. Some server setups will send 500s if there's an error with the PHP. Look at your error logs.

Edited May 10, 2013 by requinix

[neginf]

Thank you for writing back.

app/tmp/logs has one file in it called empty and it is empty.

The test site seems to work ok with the url like http://agroup.ab.brd/index.php/users/login and the code I have is supposed to match what is working.

 

Found users_controller.php and a function login() in it.

In routes.php set Router::connect('/',array('controller'=>'users','action'=>'login'));.

Got same error.

[requinix]

I meant server logs, not Cake's logs.

[neginf]

Ok.

Immitated the url and routing (default) of the project that gets the error 500 with a very simple program and it ran ok.

Just looked for logs in directories under windows\logfiles. Either had no access to directories or no recent files there. Will get a server person to help.

Thank you very much.