Are you getting a HTTP error 500 in your CodeIgniter Website? If so, we can help to solve it?

We do receive numerous support request from customers regarding errors in their CodeIgniter website as part of our Website Development Services.

In this context, we shall look at the common causes of errors in CodeIgniter and how to solve them to enhance usability.

Common causes of CodeIgniter HTTP error 500

Different factors could be behind HTTP Error 500 in a website application. This includes Errors in configuration of the PHP attributes, Missing PHP extensions, PHP fatal issues, to mention but a few.

Additionally, using an older version of CodeIgniter might not be compatible with the PHP version in use thereby causing the Server to throw a HTTP error 500. Therefore setting a lower PHP version will rectify this and make the application work.

Method to fix HTTP error 500 in CodeIgniter application

As a general rule in fixing server errors, it is only right to read the logs to get a better idea about what went wrong.

For Apache web server, you can check the location of the logs via the path, /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log. In one of our client's server for example, we saw in the logs that there was an issue with the mod_rewrite settings.

In the process of resolving this, we ran the following command;

$ httpd -V

In this case we located the Apache configuration file at the path, /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. This file was modified and removed the comment from the following line;

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

But doing this, the issue was fixed.

In other cases, we fixed such error by adding the following attributes into the .htaccess file;

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule >

We are experts in CodeIgniter and can help you fix errors in your website.

Conclusion

Basically, most Errors in CodeIgniter applications are web server based errors and detecting the reason for such is a very important step in resolving the issue. You can reach us today if you would like our Experienced Web developers to hep you fix errors in your Website and server based bugs.