500 Internal Server Error & HTTP 500 Error on Droplet

Hi DO Community, I’ve migrated files and database from an old droplet into a new LAMP 1-click install and while the site resolves and loads basic HTML pages I’m getting both a 500 Internal Server Error trying to access PHP pages and HTTP 500 errors depending on the pages I’m trying to access.

The site is available at clients.nevilleco.com and clicking on ‘Client Services’ on the left hand menu will give you the 500 internal server error. Clicking through to Newsroom -> Press REleases gives a HTTP 500 error.

I’ve gone through a number of similar posts in the community here which address permissions. I’ve run these chown commands to set permissions

Set Apache as the owner for all the files chown www-data:www-data -R * Set directory permissions find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; Set file permissions find:

-type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

I’ve also set php.ini to error_reporting = on

Here is my apache error log output when I ran tail -50 /var/log/apache2/error.log:

[Wed Jun 17 06:25:03.589620 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 867] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Jun 17 06:25:03.589683 2020] [core:notice] [pid 867] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Wed Jun 17 12:11:06.203456 2020] [php7:error] [pid 20892] [client 195.54.160.135:37812] script '/var/www/html/index.php' not found or unable to stat
[Wed Jun 17 14:11:58.364751 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 867] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Jun 17 14:11:58.467941 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 399] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Jun 17 14:11:58.468016 2020] [core:notice] [pid 399] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'```

When I look at my access.log I can see both the 500 Internal server and the 500 hTTP errors being logged as shown in the following lines.

```87.204.52.195 - - [17/Jun/2020:14:53:15 +0000] "GET /clients/check.php HTTP/1.1" 500 1520 "http://clients.nevilleco.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0"
68.142.59.19 - - [17/Jun/2020:15:01:43 +0000] "GET /press_releases.php HTTP/1.1" 500 185 "http://clients.nevilleco.com/newsroom.htm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36"

The access log looks like it’s an HTTP 500 error regardless, but in the browser they are shown as distinct (internal server error logged in console).

My virtual hosts mod file at /etc/apache2/sites-available/mydomain.com-le-ssl.conf looks like this…

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerAdmin dev@unionstmedia.com
        ServerName clients.nevilleco.com
        ServerAlias www.clients.nevilleco.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/www.nevilleco.com

        <Directory /var/www/html/www.nevilleco.com/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        <IfModule mod_dir.c>
            DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm
        </IfModule>

Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/clients.nevilleco.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/clients.nevilleco.com/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin dev@unionstmedia.com
        ServerName clients.nevilleco.com
        ServerAlias www.clients.nevilleco.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/www.nevilleco.com

        <Directory /var/www/html/www.nevilleco.com/>
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        <IfModule mod_dir.c>
            DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.html index.xhtml index.htm
        </IfModule>

RewriteEngine on
# Some rewrite rules in this file were disabled on your HTTPS site,
# because they have the potential to create redirection loops.

# RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =clients.nevilleco.com [OR]
# RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.clients.nevilleco.com
# RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,NE,R=permanent]

</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

Any help would be super appreciated.