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HTTP ERROR 500 When it must be showing php syntax error or smthing like that.

Well i followed LEMP tutorial and everything works fine except it is not telling me what error I made instead i get this HTTP ERROR 500


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Bobby Iliev
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July 27, 2022

Hi there,

What I could suggest is checking the PHP-FPM error log so that you can see the actual error rather than the generic 500 error.

The PHP-FPM log is located at the /var/log directory, for example if you’ve installed PHP 8 then the log would be at /var/log/php8.0-fpm.log. To check the log you can use the tail command:

tail -100 /var/log/php8.0-fpm.log

In there you will see the actual error, feel free to share it here so we could try to advise you further!

Best,

Bobby

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