Installation Error 500

[TheTechDev]

Hello, I am getting error 500 after the package unzips.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need more information please ask, i did not know what all to say.

I am using Xampp with php 8 and apache 2.4

I followed this: https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Installing_osCommerce_v.4.0 and all extensions is enabled. 

See photos for issue. 

Edited August 28, 2022 by TheTechDev

[osCommerce-Official]

@ynechitajlo could you please comment? 

[TheTechDev]

Appears to be something wrong with the .htaccess file that comes with it

No idea how to fix this in apache 2.4 / php 8

Edited August 28, 2022 by TheTechDev

[TheTechDev]

removing the .htaccess worked and it is working now. 

[asandros]

Hello,

Try to comment out RedirectMatch rules in .htaccess files. Looks like you do not have Apache module mod_alias enabled:

# RedirectMatch 403 /\\.svn(/|$)
# RedirectMatch 403 /*\.sh($)
# RedirectMatch 403 /*\.log($)

And for security reason you can add Rewrite rules instead:

RewriteRule /*\.svn(/|$) - [F,L]
RewriteRule /*\.sh($) - [F,L]
RewriteRule /*\.log($) - [F,L]

Of course mod_rewrite should be enabled in the Apache configuration.

[asandros]

28 minutes ago, TheTechDev said:

removing the .htaccess worked and it is working now. 

Website will not be fully working correctly without .htaccess. At least seo URLs.

[TheTechDev]

9 hours ago, asandros said:

Hello,

Try to comment out RedirectMatch rules in .htaccess files. Looks like you do not have Apache module mod_alias enabled:

# RedirectMatch 403 /\\.svn(/|$)
# RedirectMatch 403 /*\.sh($)
# RedirectMatch 403 /*\.log($)

And for security reason you can add Rewrite rules instead:

RewriteRule /*\.svn(/|$) - [F,L]
RewriteRule /*\.sh($) - [F,L]
RewriteRule /*\.log($) - [F,L]

Of course mod_rewrite should be enabled in the Apache configuration.

Both the Mod Alias and mod_rewrite is enabled in httpd.conf

[asandros]

Hello,

Please review osCommerce wiki article to check what minimal steps are required to configure server for osCommerce 4:

https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Installing_osCommerce_4_on_Dedicated_Server,_Cloud_Server_or_VPS

It's applicable for Debian 11 and Ubuntu 20.04

In fact these are really minimal steps.