Question

I am facing an error on login if I enter wrong credentials. Error is: 500-An error has occurred. When I enter wrong username and password rather then displaying error message on joomla administrator login page, it redirects me to new page which shows me the above error.
How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Check your error log for any clues on where it may be happening. This can be caused by a few items. If you have SEF and Attach Suffix enabled for URL Rewritting you need to uncomment the following in your .htaccess file:

RewriteBase /

Second if you can change folder permission to 775 for the following folders:

cache, logs, tmp & administrator/cache

then go to: configuration.php

find code:

$log_path = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXX';
$tmp_path = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXX';

and change code into:

$log_path = './logs';
$tmp_path = './tmp';